Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nation's anthrax outbreak was going to be limited to South Florida--indeed, to just a single building. The hot zone, the headquarters of tabloid publisher American Media Inc. in Boca Raton, had already been sealed off, and its employees and their families were undergoing tests for the dread bacterium. By midweek, one death and two exposures had been reported, but they appeared to be the only casualties. Despite false alarms in Ohio, upstate New York and Hawaii, it looked as though the worst was over...
...every single morning that this is worth doing, and then you have to spend the rest of the day thinking about what it is you’re doing. I’ve never written a novel during which I wasn’t filled with some kind of dread for most of the time I was working on it. That isn’t true of nonfiction...
...Study groups offer everything people like about classes without the things people dread,” said Robert F. McCarthy ’02, student president...
...Terrorists rely on the media to spread fear and dread. Thus, the press’s unlimited attention to violence serves the purposes of the terrorists as well as the purpose of informing the American public,” said Barnhurst, who plans to study how the press became not only reporters but also interpreters of the news...
...city was a cemetery in waiting: streetlights and phone poles plastered with portraits of the missing where normally the ads for lost pets or cheap painters would be. Outside the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the families afloat on hope and dread waited on line for the chance to fill out the seven-page form asking about their loved ones' tattoos and earlobes and shoe size and whether their fingers were tobacco stained. Maybe they are in a hospital, confused but safe. "I'm looking for my mother," says Brian Daniels. "Her name is on the website that...