Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds and signals were only too familiar: scare headlines screaming from the Italian newspapers, angry demonstrators on the march, and the spectacle of grim-faced political leaders huddling long into the night. Yet the storm gathering force last week in Italy was more ominous than any of the change-of-government crises that have preceded it-on the average of one every ten months since 1946. Amid the worst violence to erupt in the country in five years, the 18-month-old minority government of Premier Giulio Andreotti, faltering for weeks, slid toward all but certain collapse. Andreotti was expected...
...that scare you?" I asked Larry...
From the first, Soares had insisted on governing without political alliances. Any compromise, he feared, would further polarize the country's politics. A leftist front involving Alvaro Cunhal's Communists, the most rigid, undemocratic Stalinist party in Western Europe, would alienate the conservative north and scare off sorely needed Western capital. But an attempt to form a coalition with the Social Democrats and the C.D.S.-which Soares last week castigated as "parties of the extreme right"-would have alienated his own party's rank and file. Meanwhile, the Socialists had the unenviable task of trying to right...
Rookie coach Paul Moses commented yesterday, "We played very well. Our team was forced to adjust to a deader court, a different ball, and a very fine and well-coached Brown team." Despite Saturday's scare, the prospects for the season are bright. The squad dominated Wellesley and Tufts with two shutout victories in its opening matches...
...incredibly afraid to be less than totally masculine, cool, heroic, with it, sophisticated, charming. They try hard, too hard, to compensate for their insecurity by posing as confident and self-assured. And because Harvard men are highly skilled socially, they largely succeed. But in the process, they scare the hell out of each other--each one is convinced that everyone else's calm front is real, and that only he is in fact unsure of himself. So, for reasons irrelevant to my sexuality, I was afraid to appear to other people--even other gay people--as unsophisticated and inexperienced...