Word: dreadfulness
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...their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
Expungement, that dread punishment that entails erasing every trace of a student's presence at the College, is no longer a threat for Harvard undergraduates. The Faculty voted to rescind the regulation last fall after the general counsel's office advised them it was inconsistent with state laws regarding school records. Expungement as they say, was expunged...
...Chewbacca (he doesn't), the 8-ft.-tall wookie. A lithe and elegant simian, Chewie is co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, the souped-up space freighter that takes the intrepid rebels to their battle with the dread Death Star. Like Artoo Detoo, Chewie is voluble without actually being able to talk. In a voice that is somewhere between a hoarse lion's roar and the braying of an outraged donkey, he bullies little Artoo or retreats, in moments of danger, to a position of forthright cowardice. Inside the fur is Peter Mayhew, a porter at London...
...there hasn't been a minute in these past four years more excruciating than--I should start at the beginning. Living in Claverly during sophomore year was painful enough, but living next-door to one of those notoriously-beautiful laxwomen made the experience doubly fraught with peril. Which to dread more: stepping out into that dingy hallway and facing that bleak linoleum runway, or stepping out into that hallway and coming face to face with this year's Cover Girl, fresh from some disturbingly-athletic activity...
Ever since oil drilling got under way in the North Sea back in the early 1960s, the nations that surround this stormy body of water have lived in dread of an environmental accident. Last week their worst fears were realized. As a team of specialists worked desperately to shut off the flow, oil spewed from a blown-out well in the Norwegian Ekofisk concession at a rate of some 4,000 tons a day. The spill drifted generally eastward in a slimy slick 32 kilometers (20 miles) long that not only threatened the coasts of Scandinavia but also seemed likely...