Word: dread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should He multiply these loaves for men, Those who were hungry? Why not destroy hunger? Or simply make man never to yearn again, Never dread dawn or fear the darkness longer? He did not say, We hunger not and need Not then be filled. Rather, I am not the first, Nor last, but only One of you to bleed With the paradox of thirst, to cry, "I thirst...
...Private Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that...
...Bubble. The trouble with Vera is that she doesn't really like herself, but rather than admit it, she has blown a big, pleasant bubble of egotism about herself. The least touch of reality, as Vera well knows, will collapse her flimsy shelter; so she lives in dread and hatred that slowly encompass almost everybody and everything on the island...
This was quite enough intelligence for a simple, happy life. Elmer and Elsie might starve to death if their batteries ran down far from a current supply, but they did not dread death or any other misfortune. Their two-tube brains had no memories to plague them with apprehension. So they crept in innocent bliss around the Walter house, alternately resting and sipping electricity like a mechanical Adam & Eve in a pre-reptilian Garden...
...time yellow jack was lurking in the jungles. The dread mosquito carriers spread yellow fever from animal to animal, and from animals to the few men who ventured deep into the forests. The doctors and engineers who cleaned up the cities and labor camps of Panama never suppressed the guerrillas in the jungle...