Word: phobias
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...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...
...popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis ___” 36 It can be third-person or first-person: Abbr. 37 Formal wear 39 Listen (to) 43 Hospital locales, briefly 44 Teachers’ org. 45 Blues singer James 46 *Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song is “California” 60 Israeli guns 62 Mother fucking? 66 Number of muses 67 Total, as a tab 68 Make-up artist? 69 Head, in French 70 Go too fast...
...handling of the pest problem. E-mailing from an Argentinean hostel on Sunday, she said that the frustration—and the sting—of her cockroach encounters had not been dulled by distance. “From the innumerable encounters that I have had, a deep phobia has grown,” she wrote. “Never in my life have I had to live in these conditions before coming to Harvard, and frankly I think that the University should be absolutely ashamed...For the world-renown[ed] university to simply ignore this problem is unacceptable...
...growing phobia over manifestations of Islamic identity reflect the anxieties of a public still trying to comprehend how Britain could have spawned four home-grown suicide bombers, who killed 52 people in last year's attack on the London Underground. And Britain's domestic security services warn that some 200 Islamic extremist networks - involving around 1,600 individuals - continue to plot and plan on British soil...
America, however, is undergoing a public speaking crisis. Most people receive little to no formal training in public speaking and are petrified of it. Experts have cited the fear of public speaking as the most common phobia, one particularly widespread among college students. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this is the case at Harvard as well. All it takes to realize the severity of the situation is to notice how few students raise their hands when professors ask questions in lecture and how few students speak up in sections...