Word: scarier
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Sure, I'd been on roller coasters before, but never one like this: the Great American Eagle. It was bigger, faster, noisier, and above all scarier. It also presented a challenge of sorts. It required getting psyched...
...from then on. I had taken a strong first step by working through most of my feelings about his homosexuality. Yet I still felt threatened myself. Something nagged deep inside that if I thought or talked about it too much, this gayness might spread to me too, or scarier, expose something already there. But if I wanted to keep my friend, however nervous I was. I had to face such possibilities...
...much scarier...
...from here. That is the upshot of Author Elizabeth Arthur's first book, and it is not exactly startling news. But Island Sojourn offers something much more durable than a scoop; the book is a graceful meditation on survival, both in a harsh external landscape and in the scarier terrain of the self...
...Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, told Kissinger: "As we see it, there are two possibilities. Either one, the president didn't understand that when he went into Cambodia that he was invading another country; or two, that he did understand. We just don't know which one is scarier." Kissinger was nonplussed. He later recalled that the meeting once and for all convinced him that the world of academia, his former environment, was divorced from the realities of government and thus just didn't understand...