Word: dread
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...Giles lives in daily dread of the dry, snapping sound that means another broken bone for Barry. But she takes consolation in the fact that although brittleness of the bones is thought to be inherited, Barry's four brothers are all normal. And Dr. R. R. Hunter, who has made a special study of the child, believes there is hope for Barry himself: many victims improve later in life. Then, too, they can be treated with sex hormones...
...Flight from God has some of the quality of a spiritual Nineteen Eighty-Four, although Picard, who uses no allegories, plainly feels that 1984 is here right now. He calls his times "The World of the Flight" because unbelief and "Dread"-"The Flight from God"-have replaced Faith as the essence of life. In a world where all truths have become relative and experimental, the only reality left is change. "The man of the Flight," Picard writes, "has no firm standard against which to measure himself. He has only the possibilities." Philosopher Picard's book is a fleeting, sometimes...
...including commissioners, are deeply concerned about the long-range effect of such secrecy. They realize that in. the blackness, sprinkled with atom bombs, that surrounds their expanding empire, all sorts of unhealthy and startling growths might sprout unobserved. They know well that they hold in their hands the most dread power in the world...
...Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss so far: thousands of miles of valuable farmlands, more than 150 lives and 30,000 cattle; relief and reconstruction funds will be equivalent to more than a quarter of Italy's annual...
...Communist dishonestly teaching a doctrine he does not believe, then it seems he is to be accepted, while if the answer is "yes," if this Communist teacher will openly teach and advocate communism, then it appears we are to fire him, and restrict our contact with this dread doctrine to the rather outmoded and frenetic Communist Manifesto...