Word: fear
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...Although Zimmerman and others said they were excited about the significance of reaching into the final frontier, the event also spurred anxieties about the United States falling behind in the space race. This fear prompted the federal government to send an influx of funding to astronomical researchers throughout the country, making Cambridge the nation’s astronomical Mecca as students kept their eyes cast upward to the skies...
...Zimmerman said that among the researchers at the observatory there was no fear or politics associated with the Russian spacecraft...
...Gordon recalled Segal’s ostensible disappointment after receiving his first-semester grades. He said that Segal looked theatrically at his grades and expressed fear that he would “flunk...
...Unfortunately, Walesa, an electrician from the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland who would later serve as the country’s president, could not set foot on U.S. soil for fear of being unable to return to his country, thus becoming the first to have his speech read in absentia at a Harvard Commencement...
...referred to valientes, or brave ones - and stores with names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups. "These guys are scared of nothing," says Mercurio Sanchez, 50, a record store owner. "They have no fear of the police, the army or even...