Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snaking through Cambridge on a sound truck campaigning for former Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.). Harding, who says he has subsequently "done a complete turnaround," perceived the mood then as "one of threat from the outside. Czechoslovakia had been overthrown a few years earlier and we were all genuinely afraid of being surrounded by communists. Sending troops to Korea made sense at the time, although we were terrified at the idea of actually going over there and shooting people. It wasn't like Vietnam where it became so evident that what we were being told was not what was actually...
...nothing. This undistinguished group includes Barnes, a writer of insipid mysteries with titles like Death of a Deb; Flash, sports entrepreneur and president of the North American Curling League, Stella the Divorcee, an oversexed blob usually clad in "Omar the Tentmaker" originals who does things Erica Jong is afraid to even dream about; and Lizzie, a confirmed epicurean who thinks truck stops are the "best places...
...consecrated bread is kept. On the cloth, in use for. 15 years, they now saw a pattern of shadows that seemed to them to resemble the face of Jesus. "We called some of our friends and told them they had to come immediately," recalls Housewife Violet Burrows. "We were afraid it would go away...
Maybe we are outraged by Harvard's actions, but we're afraid of what the disciplinary consequences of protest might be. The job market is tight, and many may not want to play games with their futures even if it means not taking a stand on a moral issue we consider important. This reason is probably at least partially correct. But at the same time, it seems clear that Harvard never would have 300 students arrested as Stanford did--the University learned too many bitter lessons in 1969 to do something like that...
Long John was almost afraid to ask Bentley what he thought of the show. Bentley, a liberal Democrat with the tastes of the Brattle Street chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control...