Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby was killed. "The tipster was afraid," says Enquirer editor Steve Coz, but "he was interested in the money...
...Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...
...centered ("Most of all, together we shall fall on our faces at the foot of the throne and worship our Savior forever"). Her musings are scripturally solid, although she points out that even biblical tropes are "only shadowy images of the real thing." Perhaps most important, she is not afraid to sell. "Oh, the things that we shall do!" she writes. "You and your friends will rule the world and judge the angels...Together, we shall receive the morning star and be crowned with life, righteousness and glory." Her book was originally published in 1995 by Zondervan, now a subdivision...
...feel sorry for Lieut. Cuevas and her daughter Isabella. The Army will probably win on this issue, and Cuevas will have to complete her military obligation. I'm afraid the Army will have a tired, frustrated and resentful pilot, but it will have a pilot. The bond between a nursing mother and her child is stronger than anything I have ever known. I am a former U.S. Air Force captain, and I breast-fed my first son. Other officers may believe Cuevas is "selfish and a disgrace to women in the military," but I think she is demonstrating selflessness...
...always been afraid to wonder why Oscar is holding a sword where his genitals are supposed to be. This year, though, his physiology is kind of a moot point. Whatever Oscar's anatomical structure, the little fella has finally shown some balls...