Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lowry's two losses came against Wing and Meredith Boice. In both bouts Lowry fenced over-cautiously, seeming to be, in Cooper's words, "afraid to lunge" as she frequently came up inches short of her opponent on her attacks...
...think Jim Curry is afraid to play his sister...
...parents expressed some fear that excessive contact with students might lead to abnormal behavior in the children. "When I moved in three years ago, I was afraid they'd become instantly precocious, but it hasn't happened," Natalie Pihl says. "We're concerned because the kids get a lot of attention from so many people, and we're afraid they might become--spoiled," Graeme Fincke says. He and his wife are "keeping an eye on the children" to prevent that from happening...
...every holiday belongs a certain genre of literature, designed to express a certain sentiment to those we love, or to those institutions we are afraid to lay as under...
...mainstream of American life." Some foreign-born parents share his concern. Manuel Llera, principal of a junior high school in California's Sweetwater Union school district, near the Mexican border, has been forced by parental pressure to remove some Chicano children from the bilingual program. Parents, he says, "are afraid that their kids are going to get a second-class education and that they won't learn English...