Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese are no strangers to bombing. Since 1966, an estimated 65% of all American bombs have been dropped on the South, making the mighty B-52 an object of dread and fear. The giant bombers, silent and invisible at 30,000 ft., are first announced by the whistling of scores of falling bombs. On contact, the strike shakes the earth for miles around, raising a holocaust of dust, smoke and debris. Well-dug-in guerrillas can frequently survive an attack, but a peasant in his field has little chance...
...recently proposed a charter amendment that would set a ceiling of 100,000 on the population (current pop. 72,000). Though the amendment was voted down, concern is spreading. Denver now has more cars per capita than Los Angeles, and many Denverites are looking forward with dread to the 1976 Winter Olympics. A proposal to withhold state funds for the Games will appear on the ballot in November. Says Colorado Democratic
...recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children, or have merely reached an untenable age. "Do the sacrificed elders often have a reaction of dread and rebellion?" de Beauvoir asks. She thinks evidence proves they do. Yet spanning the centuries as well as the distance between East and West, she concludes that old age has become life's parody in all societies, an end to life so degrading that it incurs more dread and rebellion...
...argued that its reasons for doing so are too "complex and subtle" for a judge to evaluate competently. Powell responded sharply: "If the threat is too subtle or complex, one may question whether there is probable cause for surveillance . . . The price of lawful public dissent must not be a dread of subjection to an unchecked surveillance power...
This approach is rare, for people around the dying, reminded of their own mortality, use denying tactics themselves. They treat dying patients as objects of dread instead of as human beings "whose thoughts and preferences matter." Such behavior makes a "good death" impossible by failing to distinguish between survival, or biologic existence, and "significant survival," which requires control of pain, respect for the patient's autonomy and preservation of his emotional ties to other people...