Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Find that single country station you can pick up in Cambridge and you'll learn this: the most desirable women in the world are smart as a whip and not afraid to show it. They are outspoken, demanding and highly capable equals...
...baby sitter without even thinking about the complex financial dynamics underlying the transaction. Cash--especially U.S. dollars--is also portable, storable and exchangeable. (Just ask the thousands of Russian mafiosi who pay for nearly everything with crisp $100 bills.) And it holds up pretty well. If you're afraid of banks, you can still grab a coffee can, dig a hole in the backyard and have a pretty secure deposit. But paper cash does have some awful drawbacks. Lose it and it's gone; sit on it and it may lose its value overnight: think about what just happened...
...remembering new fears and images that my mother and I had blocked out. A few days after the incident, I began to fear that my coach was hiding underneath my bed, in my closet or behind the shower curtain. One night I walked into my parents' room crying, too afraid to go to sleep. They comforted me, reassuring me that my fears were normal. Beginning that night, the three of us made rounds every day to check in all the scary places before I got into bed. Sometimes, I still like to check...
...reason may be that you don't want to appear better than others: you are afraid of exhibiting the superiority complex that some outsiders seem to expect from those associated with Harvard...
...TBTN is all about gaining our voice. We as women are often afraid to speak up against unwanted sexual attention," Weisbard added...