Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took autoshop. My dad made me take it because he was afraid of me breaking down on the highway. The only time I ever used what I learned was at the Kappa Alpha Theta retreat when my friend, Beth, couldn't get her car started...
...think Claire would have ever come to a school like Harvard. I think she'd be afraid of being labeled a dork...
...couple of times and ask me some questions. Why am I doing it? They'll pay me $40 to sleep." Zettel will also be paid $50 to let them "take magnetic pictures of my head" and learn to meditate at $10 an hour. He's not afraid of any repercussions of these experiments. "I got an MRI before and it wasn't really that bad," he claims. Most experiments are more mundane, paying students to take tests on a computer, name pictures, or fill out a questionnaire...
...English 10b section, I meet many of my fellow UC representatives, who glance at me curiously, many asking if I'm Muslim. Otherwise, I receive polite and almost overly respectful glances, as though people with whom I normally goof around are now afraid to offend me with questions--or even eye contact. Yesterday I felt like a spectacle, but today I feel invisible...
...Women are usually afraid to have women-only events," said Take Back The Night coordinator Judith Batalion '99, who helped organize the Eat-In. "They gain a sense of empowerment from a group that is all women, and then they can bring this into their relationships with...