Word: fearfully
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...Sticking it out was something I had picked up at Harvard, a place where the primary fear is of failing—at anything, ever. The corollary of the anxiety about failure is a willingness to do almost anything to make an endeavor seem successful. No matter if acknowledging our minor mistakes, like my choosing the wrong roommate, could dramatically increase our happiness...
...Orleans, I’ll know that I have the opportunity to have a positive impact on my students. Similarly, when I was working on my English thesis, a project I could have dropped with very few consequences, I enjoyed it because I knew that my motivation was not fear of failure, nor a robotlike dedication to work...
...through the streets under police siege. When we got hit with tear gas, Mohammed negotiated safe houses for us to go in and wash our eyes. He always worried about my camera. When a passing train a few feet away was hit with rocks and I cowered in fear, he covered my body with...
...infamous debate—in which the Faculty failed to meet quorum, the Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April’s meeting, at which they failed to meet quorum, and thus passed no legislation...
...those who fear the free access will soon vanish from Cambridge, like Rowling, Jillson has some comforting words...