Word: fear
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...accomplished...Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant? People who played against me called me cocky, but my teammates didn't. I brought attention, fear. I wanted to beat you in the worst way. If that made me cocky, so be it." - On his reputation, Baseball Digest...
Even those of us who haven't been forced out of our homes are living in constant fear of having to do so, in daily terror of the Israeli military's next move. Israel has infiltrated the local news channels and radio broadcasts. While watching the news, we see the screen go black, and a message comes up for a few moments, saying something along the lines of, "You will witness our wrath." We turn off the television and turn on the radio, only to hear the transmission being interrupted as another message from the Israeli military comes forth: "Leave...
...book Innumeracy addresses the topic. "There is a sense that when numbers are too big or too small, the brain just shuts off," says Colin Camerer, a professor of behavioral economics at the California Institute of Technology. "People either don't think about it at all or there is fear, an exaggerated reaction...
Sharing the pool with an Ivy League opponent for the first time in over a month, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) gave the rest of the league something to fear. The Crimson trounced the visiting Penn Quakers (3-3, 2-3) 213-85 this past Saturday.Harvard won 14 of the day’s 16 events, completely dominating its rival Quakers.“I think we did what we needed to get done,” said junior distance stand-out Alex Meyer, who placed first...
...unable to distinguish joy from fear. My 11-year-old sister laughs as she imagines how people all over the world watch the horrific events taking place in the Gaza Strip. "It's like we are in a scary movie. I'm sure people eat popcorn as they watch," she says. My 12- and 14-year-old brothers act out scenes from our reality while quoting Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, their favorite video game, and we laugh hysterically at their performance. Moments later we tense up at the sound of a violent, earthquake-like explosion close...