Word: scared
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...respectively from last year, according to The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian. Bruce J. Breimer, director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York City, said he disagreed with Fitzsimmons’ reasoning.An increase in rejections the previous year is “not going to scare away someone for whom an application is appropriate,” Breimer said. “You don’t make it a negative self-fulfilling prophecy by refusing to apply.”Total applications hit record highs this year at Penn, Princeton, and Yale—which...
...project a manly ideal as an example to my students. Sure, I occasionally giggle, but I’m working on it. In any case, I tried to scare off all the women from the course, but this one girl didn’t seem to get the message (culinary school). Her first paper started off, “As a woman…” I stopped reading and gave her the “Gentleman?...
...voice was muffled, labored, weak--as you might expect from a man who has spent the past four years on the run. If it didn't belong to one of the world's most feared men, it would hardly scare a child. Having disappeared from view, sheltering in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden may have lost the ability to send a chill down the world's spine. Governments don't shut down airports or send security forces into red alert. Even when he makes the direst threats, we no longer feel compelled to slow down, much...
...theories is that the noise drives away the devil,” he adds. “You make that kind of noise to scare away evil forces...
...always came earlier in his speeches, being informal and thin. King sputtered at the podium, then slipped a gear. "And they were telling me--now it doesn't matter now," he said. "It really doesn't matter. I left Atlanta this morning ..." He told briskly of the bomb scare on his plane and how the pilot had announced that threats to King had generated a precautionary overnight guard for the aircraft. "And then I got into Memphis." He frowned. "And some began to say the threats--or talk about the threats--that were out, what would happen to me from...