Word: dread
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...contrary. It would have been more comfortable to be without Him than to live with Him. He puts burdens on the soul, which one would rather let pass by unheeded. He exacts a great deal with His demands. And when one thinks that the cross is not so dread, which His children take upon themselves, then comes the moment when it grows very dread indeed...
Leverett's biggest disadvantage though, is the feeling of dread which newly-assigned members carry into their first year. The contrast between the expected and the real is so pleasantly shocking that Hutch men spend the rest of their residency futilely trying to persuade frightened freshmen of Leverett's virtues...
...Eden made it clear that Britain did not intend to abandon diplomatic recognition of Mao Tse-tung, the new agreement on trade with Red China removed one of the most dangerous conflicts between British and American Far Eastern policy. Even those Americans who still hold to an almost superstitious dread of the subtle cunning and persuasiveness of British diplomats had to admit that this time the U.S. had done a good, if belated, piece of business...
...wish our friends the world over to know this above all: we face the threat-not with dread and confusion-but with confidence and conviction...
...ancient Hebrews decreed that a warning blast should be sounded on the shofar to mark the third case of an infectious disease in a community, but diphtheria rated a shofar warning for the very first case. Few diseases have been so dreaded as diphtheria, partly because it is especially deadly for children in the tender two-to-five age bracket. Last week Yeshiva University in New York City held a special convocation to give an honorary degree to a physician who had done much to take the dread out of diphtheria: Bela Schick, the little-known man behind the famous...