Word: fear
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like a kick to the chest. I wonder if those in favor of our military actions could look into these children's eyes and explain to them why America is right to do this to them and their families. All the arguments in the world will never justify the fear and pain reflected in those children's faces. Kelly Czermerys, Hunter...
...standing out amongst this talented bunch... right? As luck would have it, the Common Casting session I chose to attend was the musicals’ casting. I clearly didn’t get that memo either—everyone was poring over sheet music as I looked around in fear... I don’t sing. I don’t sing my alma mater. I don’t sing the Star-Spangled Banner. I don’t even sing “Happy Birthday.” Fortunately, Harvard’s celebrated soap opera Ivory Tower...
...then there are some hook-ups that even the slickest sleuths should avoid at all costs. “Dormcest” is always a bad idea. If things go sour, your 4 a.m. vending machine visits will always be wrought with the fear of bumping into your ex-lover buying Diet Coke for a new honey, or using the basement dryers for something other than drying clothes. Plus, dorms are mini-Harvards—word gets around pretty fast, and nobody wants to be the year’s “Holworthy Ho?...
...have had similar thoughts and doubts about the meaning of life. Nourished from an early age on the diet of my parents’ scientific humanism, I remember lying awake at night in terror of death: my own and the universe’s. Like sex, this state of fear and trembling had its latency period (there were about eight years there where I only thought about baseball...
...financial policy relied on being able to rollover certain types of short-term financing,” said Bergstresser, who served as the former head of European Credit Research at Barclays Global Investors. “When the perception arose in the markets that Bear was having trouble, the fear of Bear’s failure became a self-fulfilling prophecy as Bear could no longer rollover their short-term financing...