Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change of heart. She fizzled. By the time the storm crossed the coast, its winds diminished by at least a third. Until then, however, it fit Jarrell's vision of what the Big One will be like: traffic jams and cars blown wholesale into storm-surge waters. "I'm afraid you're going to drown hundreds if not thousands of people," says Jarrell. "And it's going to happen some time...
...values is an obvious first step. Be sure to note that STDs do not discriminate: you can't tell if another person is infected by how "clean" or "nice" he or she is. Nor are condoms, which generally provide pretty good protection, entirely foolproof. So don't be afraid to let your teenagers get tested for chlamydia. You may not like the results, but at least a treatment is available...
...months before marrying a former student of his, almost 30 years his junior. In 1991 the local newspaper reported that she was caught injecting cocaine in an abandoned house with a stranger and given two year's probation for possession. The hunter-athlete-poet told his son he was afraid she might kill...
...followed Mercury, he grew increasingly frustrated. Finally, in 1964, he resigned from NASA. "It was only years later that I read in a book that Kennedy had passed the word that he didn't want me to go back up," Glenn says. "I don't know if he was afraid of the political fallout if I got killed, but by the time I found out, he had been dead for some time, so I never got to discuss it with...
Harvard students are afraid of failure. Most of us have worked tirelessly to get this far, and for those who haven't, the fear is that much greater. But not finding your soul mate on your first date is not going to kill you. Indeed, you might figure out that you can't stand a certain type of person. Better to know now, than when your biological or dating clock won't stop sounding the alarm...