Word: dread
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago's Abbott Laboratories last week, researchers sat in fascination watching the first action film of a microorganism being killed by one of the new antibiotic wonder drugs. The drug, fumagillin, killed the amoeba which causes the dread amoebic dysentery (see MEDICINE) by making it explode...
Russell Kirk* has news for most Americans: "Conservatism is something deeper than mere defense of shares and dividends, something nobler than mere dread of what is new." The American asks: "Is it? And if so, what?" The question has a special interest to a nation which is the reputed champion of a position that has almost dropped out of its own conversation...
...whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about a railroad train hitting a girl named Lucy; "The track was juicy, the juice was Lucy." His fans are currently enrolling...
...hope your authors will give some thought to my remarks. No solution is in sight at this end. In fact, my chief dread right now is that when I get out of graduate school hero at Yale and get into the Army I will have a sergeant who went to neither Harvard nor Yale. Stephen O. Saxe...
...Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such a hazard might well settle the Korean war and all other pending global issues on equitable terms...