Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single parent and then I would petition the court anywhere from six months to a year later for a second parent adoption. The state was willing to put Adam at risk with this phony and expensive double adoption process rather than risk rocking the boat. Simply put, they were afraid...
...Wednesday night made patently clear, Harvard students have only minimal fear of wasting precious study hours, and we are certainly not afraid to be a part of a crowd. On the last night of reading period, no one needed a famous band to bring hordes of students out of their dorms. Nor was it necessary to hand out free alcohol or to haul in giant inflatable office supplies. Just hours before exams, hundreds of undergraduates defied every Harvard stereo-type, converging on the Yard for the Primal Scream. There is no longer any secret about how to attract a crowd...
Come and get me, Yager drawls. She has faced down Satan himself and won, she says, and "I'm not afraid...
...obscenities screamed at me on a continual basis, and had been sexually and physically abused by him. When confronted and challenged, he said he was sorry... I was unsure of myself and ashamed of the abuse, and afraid of him... Without knowing it, I had turned into the classic victim. I was afraid and sorry for my abuser...
...faxes. In one letter to the police she said that Bipin, while returning the children to her house, began "screaming many obscenities" and said, "You're a prostitute and a slut...you're going to get nothing from me." Ellen ended that letter, "My children and I are afraid of him." But while he signed agreements not to harass her, there was never an admission of guilt on his part or any criminal finding against...