Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limit on conversions. City Councilor David Clem says the rent control board approved only four requests for eviction by converting landlords between January and September of 1977. Conversion opponents claim, however, that landlords are frightening many more tenants who do not know their legal rights or are just too afraid to exercise them...
...deeply threatening sexual and/or aggressive urges. One difference, says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Walter Stewart, is that agoraphobics are "generally angrier and sicker" than other phobics. Why are most agoraphobics female? Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson believes that men generally deal with anxiety by compulsively facing it. "If they are afraid of violence, they may become addicted to football, play it, see it again and again. Women are basically phobic; men are basically counterphobic...
Someone once told me, though, that it was better to look forward than backward, which brings us to this week's games, the toughest group of contests in memory. Also, my momentum, I'm afraid, has departed, and as a result, an 0-4 showing today is quite possible...
...Radcliffe student who has used the diet intermittently during the last six months said yesterday the orange- and cherry-flavored liquid protein tastes terrible, but is very effective in helping to shed pounds. She complained of small side effects--muscle spasms and teeth "feeling loose," and said she is afraid the diet "isn't really healthy...
...fish processing plant is nearly operational. A recreation league is being organized. A health center is working to provide the Passamaquoddies with good medical care. David Francis has been around long enough to see the improvement. So was another Passamaquoddy, Albert Sockabasin. "When I was a kid, you were afraid to admit you were an Indian. Now it's the opposite, things have changed...