Word: dreadfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinds of hyperdemocracy, is a straightforward outgrowth of information technology. The second basic kind -- the one more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...
...long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread...
Last night's Harvard women's basketball game was the type that rims dread...
Welcome back to Cambridge after two weeks of holiday cheer and celebration with your family, opening gifts and singing songs. But what gift did we receive from fair Mother Harvard? The dread of finals, a freezing cold two-week escape into the library, three days of intersession and spring registration...
...same sentiments rang through Moscow. Dread of a prolonged guerrilla war that might not be confined to Chechnya -- the rebels have threatened terrorist attacks on Russian nuclear-power stations -- united communists, leaders of the once pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party and many other politicians in condemnation of the invasion. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalists were the only major faction to voice even tepid support...