Word: afraid
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...afraid of these people.' SAMAK SUNDARAVEJ, Thai Prime Minister, on the estimated 30,000 protesters who denounced him as a tool of the former regime...
McCain's enemies say he lacks the temperament to be President; his friends say he is just a spirited fighter who isn't afraid of taking on sacred cows. Some of McCain's worst enemies have been GOP appropriators like Domenici, Ted Stevens of Alaska and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has said the thought of a President McCain sends a cold chill down his spine. McCain has been a relentless critic of congressional pork and has made a point of publicizing the pet-project earmarks that appropriators slip into budget bills. "He ruffles a lot of feathers because...
...race for the future is on," keynote speaker Mark Warner of Virginia said in an otherwise generally flat performance. "John McCain promises more of the past. America has never been afraid of the future, and we shouldn't start...
...with much appeal to white ethnic voters in places like Pennsylvania, his presence on the ticket may help with key demographic groups in the East and Midwest," says Steve Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington. It also doesn't hurt that Biden's not afraid of the role of bare-knuckled boxer. Biden often told audiences, as he did again in Springfield, that his father used to coach him that life was not about how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times you get up again...
...abuse. In 2005 police in the southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd with raping two minors, punishable by death by firing squad. Gadd denied these charges, but did confess to showering with at least one girl and sharing his bed with her because she was afraid of ghosts. According to Gadd's lawyer in Vietnam, Gadd paid the victims' families $2,000 each prior to the trial, and lesser charges for sexual abuse were subsequently filed...