Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this dread that all our financial success is going to go down the drain," Chun said...
...think of is the work I have to do and the responsibilities I'm shirking. I have two papers due Tuesday. I have a meeting to run Monday. I have socks to wash. And the thought of being off-line for two days fills me with dread...
What do first-years love, sophomores struggle with, juniors dread and seniors laugh at? The Grille, yes, but I was actually referring to sections. Sections are something we can all relate to--they are an unavoidable aspect of academic life at Harvard. In our four-year journey here, our relationship with sections is in constant flux and development. If Verdi had been at Harvard he would have said, "La sections et mobile" ("how fickle are sections"). Sections take us on a real emotional roller coaster. Each year marks the beginning of a new stage in this stormy romance...
...dread "syn flood," a relatively simple but utterly effective means for shutting down an Internet service provider--or, for that matter, anyone else on the Net. After Panix went public with its story two weeks ago, dozens of online services and companies acknowledged being hit by similar "denial of service" attacks. As of late last week, seven companies were still under furious assault...
Fullerton gets a lot right, or so it seems to a safely distant observer. He writes about pervasive dread, the fear of small-arms fire whipping through glassless windows, mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...