Word: dreaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE inject Harold Pinter's special menace-and-dread serum directly into a playgoer's veins...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE inject Harold Pinter's special menace-and-dread serum directly into a playgoer's veins...
...completing her autobiography last April, Dame Edith Sitwell was asked how she felt. "Dying, but apart from that I'm all right," she replied. A little later, she remarked that as a Roman Catholic (she became a convert in 1955), "I know I ought not to dread death, but I am so conceited that I simply cannot imagine how the world would get on without me." In London's St. Thomas Hospital last week, at 77, Edith Sitwell died of a heart attack, thus putting the world to the test...
Understandably, Americans aren't proud of New York. They say it's the crime, or the squalor but really they're on the defensive. They dread New York's sophistication, her toughness, her cynicism. They think she looks down her 80-story nose at them, considering anywhere else pure Dubuque. They know New York's got the power (the money, the industry, the communications) but fear she's without the responsibility to behave herself...