Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't too afraid in the beginning, when the guide said we could just walk up to the animals," Adams said. "But then he put on a bandolier of bullets the size of lipstick tubes. He looked pretty impressive...
...afraid that the discussion group has devolved from its original design as a source of academic help," wrote John F. Love. "I fear that your monopolistic use of it as an avenue for combative personal expression may have a chilling effect on others' willingness to use this wonderful tool of technology for more noble ends...
Ceballos made a distinction between programs that give minorities opportunities and those that fill quotas, a distinction he said he is afraid Proposition 209 does not make...
...reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." This legislation was written in 1791, when our fledgling republic still had no regular army or stable government and was desperately afraid of losing its newly-found freedom to a foreign power. Today, we have a well-regulated militia--the U.S. armed forces--a stable government and hundreds of kids dying from gunshot wounds. Yet the gun lobby is desperate to carry the second amendment to the absurdity of letting any schmoe...
...connect with inner-city youth and demonstrate that it's possible to make it out of poverty. But whether this will help in a district that hasn't voted for a Republican since Lincoln--and where the incumbent wields such clout, according to the Washington Times, that businesses are afraid to support Hayle--will depend on getting her fellow Caribbeans and pro-life Catholics to the polls...