Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem seems particularly serious in Shanghai, where twelve platoons of army troops have been sent out to ensure safety on the streets. Still, Liberation Daily reports that young girls are afraid to venture out of their homes to attend classes at night, and that "some criminals have been publicly blocking roads, committing robberies, murders, rapes, and thefts of both public and private property." Several weeks ago, at a rally of 3,000 people in a city gymnasium, six hooligans were sentenced to terms of eight to 13 years for street muggings, burglaries and harassing women...
...afraid of a letdown after B.U., but the kids showed me some stuff," coach Billy Cleary said after the game...
...like that scene in the "Bride of Frankenstein" when the monster talks," he said. "Look, people are afraid to come forward...
Hercules finally broached the subject of bodybuilding. He had avoided it until then afraid that it would be like talking to Johnny Unitas. "Oh yeah, Johnny, I throw a football too." Hercules had known something of the joy of pumping, but here was this man (the avatar!), this man who had built a temple to himself and carried it around, an objective correlative of his huge ego. What was it like...
...lack of candidates for executive positions "is probably because people don't know about RUS," Dundes said, adding, "Sexism makes women afraid to join a women's group...