Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN MY DATE asked me to the Freshman Formal, a wave of dread pierced right through me. Even the fact that he was a good friend didn't prevent horrible prom memories from resurfacing--big hair, tight dresses, overdone makeup, cheesy decorations, awful music. However, the UC Freshman Caucus managed to surprise the class of '98 last Friday night...
...refugees, most of them Rwandan Hutu, clogged the rutted roads of central Africa last week. Thousands of men, women and children were on the move in Burundi, fleeing camps where they had sought asylum last year from the civil war in their homeland next door. Now, spurred by the dread of more ethnic killing, they trudged east toward Tanzania. As they passed other Hutu camps, more thousands gathered up their meager belongings to join the trek. About 40,000 refugees were stalled Saturday just outside Tanzania after the country closed its borders...
PAUL JERNBERG, A 71-YEAR-OLD mortgage banker from Chicago, walked into his doctor's office a healthy, happy man. A short while later, he left with a sense of dread. Although Jernberg felt fine, a sophisticated protein test indicated that he might have prostate cancer. A subsequent biopsy was inconclusive, but a second one disclosed that he indeed had the beginnings of a tumor. "Of course, we'll operate next week," the physician told him. Not so fast, Jernberg thought. He feared the possible side effects of prostate surgery, including incontinence and even impotence. After consulting another doctor...
...events in Tokyo were a clear warning to the world. Terrorism has taken a step across a threshold that security experts have been anticipating with dread for decades. It has been known that there are groups out there that are willing to kill at random. There is proof that they are able to use chemical weapons, and possibly biological and radioactive ones as well, that can destroy far more people than conventional bombs and bullets. Now that nerve gas has been used on ordinary citizens, it may possibly happen again: the fact that terrorists are copycats and hungry for publicity...
...some, the sense of dread extends beyond the fear of more sarin, reaching deep into the nature of Aum and the sort of person Aum attracts, whether the cult was behind the killings or not. There is a word for a certain kind of young person in Japan: otaku, which translates as obsessed to the point of being asocial, almost communally autistic. The word describes a whole generation of children for whom family life barely exists: father is always at work, and child is at cram school, preparing for the next exam. The father often does it because he remembers...