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Word: dreaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politicians speak, alternately with dread and delight, about a campaign's "October surprise," the unexpected element thrown into a race just far enough ahead of Election Day to have an impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...anxious with this kind of work, and his nerves don't relax with the last click of the shutter. There is still the fear that the film might get lost, ruined by airport X rays, spoiled in the laboratory. Worst of all, there's "the dread of opening the brown envelope when the pictures come back. You know they are not going to be good. The only time you like a picture is before you see it." -By RichardLacayo. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Meeting of Two Masters | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Nice idea: a video game that is designed not merely as an amusement for idle teenage reflexes but as aptitude test and recruiting device for Star- fighters. These warriors are needed to defend a space frontier, maintained by the Star League, an interplanetary alliance threatened by the dread, yucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Styles for a Summer Night | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease. Many Haitians contend that only a few pigs were afflicted with the dread African swine fever. Says one poultry raiser: "The farmers saw no reason for the pigs to be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Eliminating the Haitian Swine | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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