Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lame duck. Some A.N.C. members seem to object to Mandela's taking a supreme role in the organization, officially headed by the ailing Oliver Tambo, 72. Still, none suggested that Mandela had compromised the A.N.C. goal of one-man, one-vote black majority rule, although younger militants are afraid that he has grown too soft and too accommodating. The group officially opposes talks with the government until several preconditions are met, including an end to the 1986 state of emergency and the legalization of the A.N.C...
...resonant with high symbolic significance. The 54th, led by an idealistic 25-year-old white man, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick skillfully blending shyness and tenacity), had to fight to fight. Their white comrades-in-arms were full of contemptuous prejudice against them, and the high command was afraid to arm black men who had their own bitter racial grievances (many were runaway slaves...
...launched an ad campaign stressing freedom of choice: "Today fur. Tomorrow leather. Then wool. Then meat." Bernard Groger, co-publisher of the trade magazine Fur World, says, "Nobody can tell the American woman what to wear." Warns Seattle furrier Nicholas Benson: "You're seeing signs of terrorism. People are afraid to wear furs on the streets because of what might happen...
There are still complaints that the escort services on campus are largely inaccessible, that much of campus is still poorly lit and that women are still afraid in a campus that is supposed to be their home...
...think that fear of being raped is different than fear of being beaten up," Zellweger says. "You could look at rape as the systematic subjugation of women, to keep them in their place, keep them afraid, keep them running scared...