Word: dreadfulness
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...sense of dread that haunted Nepal's trek to the polls is fading fast. "The mood is almost euphoric," says Kunda Dixit, editor of the English-language Nepali Times and a prominent democracy advocate. More than half of the registered electorate in Kathmandu voted in just the first few hours of polling. Despite a scattering of incidents-one candidate was gunned down, an eight others were killed in factional fighting-only 33 of 20,882 voting stations nationwide reported that polling was disrupted...
...Looming specter-like above Lebanon's worsening crisis during the past three years has been the U.N. investigation into Hariri's murder, the final results of which are awaited by the Lebanese with a paradoxical blend of hope that it will end the crisis, and dread for what the truth might entail...
...university is terrified of any suggestion of race- or sex-based biases. The administration immediately distanced itself from this association, and their dread was conspicuous...
Dodging countless tourists, iPod-carrying speed walkers, and the often-inclement Cambridge weather can make Harvard students dread the walk to 10 a.m. section. But even Quadlings have little to complain about, according to a recent study that named Cambridge America’s most pedestrian-friendly city...
Wide-open threes and mid-range jumpers soon became adventures of peril and dread for Harvard’s shooters. After shooting 42 percent from the floor and 33 percent from three-point range, the Crimson made exactly one three in the second, going...