Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flavor peculiarly American. Its strong Pentecostalism emphasizes such esoteric spiritual gifts as speaking in tongues and healing by faith. For many, there exists a firm conviction that Jesus' Second Coming is literally at hand. Proclaiming the imminent end of the world and Last Judgment like so many dread...
...shreds of tobacco; in the epic wasteland of ice and snow. More illuminating than either the performances or the screenplay is Sven Nykvist's Arctic photography, shot in the glacial reaches of Norway. Long a cinematographer for Ingmar Bergman, Nykvist can achieve a tactile sense of dread; his expanses of snow are more than weather: they seem vast pages upon which no one dares to write...
...Embraced. The Washington staff took great pains to ensure that regional organizations complied with the nonviolence pledge. One recalcitrant office was told to shut down, and all potential participants were warned that any violence, even trashing, would earn them the dread label of "pig provocateur." The theme was driven home with a 135-page, multicolored manual, one of the most thorough guerrilla guide books in the U.S. today. Still another manual gave regional leaders a step-by-step guide to Mayday tactics. Instructions on how to choke some 21 key sites read: "The regional groups will be broken into units...
...said, "We have to remember that the dining hall is the place where everybody has to eat. We didn't have any intentions of denying anybody any freedom. But enough people have been disturbed by this to cause us concern. Last year, it got so that you began to dread going to the dining room because you didn't know what you were going to be hit with that night...
Dumped over deep cuts high in the mountains, the "overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...