Word: dreadfulness
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...A.B.A. audience, which interrupted him eight tunes to applaud, obviously agreed, and so did much of America. The New York Times pointed out, in one of the many editorial page responses that the speech provoked, that Burger touched a nerve with "an entire generation of citizens who dread the city streets and in their fear feel deprived of elementary rights." David Armstrong, president-elect of the National District Attorneys Association, praised the speech for "exposing the cracks in our system before they get worse and the system breaks apart...
...usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was going to argue? Thus when First Lady Jehan Sadat, 47, defended her master's thesis (on the influence of English Romantic Poet Shelley on Arabic literature), the entire 2¼ hours were presented on national TV. At the end of the program, Anwar's angel got an A. Predictably, sniped some...
...doubt" but rather in what there is no doubt about-the destruction of the past and the human capacity to replicate it. For all the dreams it carries, Columbia has that same capacity. Like the decade ahead of it, the vessel may be contemplated with hope or with dread, but there is no "doubt" about its ability to justify either...
Others, among them old friends and family, are ambivalent. They're ready for a long dose of Plains' former peace, where the only prying eyes belonged to one's neighbors; and they rather dread the attractions of a former Chief Executive, whatever their feelings for the man they've always known. Steady throughout is the question of Rosalynn. "Rosalynn really loved that job; don't count on her staying home cooking dinner." "Rosalynn's liable to run for something-maybe Vice President to Fritz Mondale...
...Countrymen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance." With that dramatic warning, the Polish Communist Party appealed last week for an end to the labor unrest that had brought Poland to what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread scenario of Moscow intervening to prevent a key satellite from abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events...