Word: dreadfulness
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...least for the moment, a massive "non-event." Commissions draw less attention from customers in strong markets, when heavy trading generates healthy incomes for brokers. More significant, Wall Street is tougher and more efficient than it was a few years ago, when poor market conditions heightened the dread of losing the crutch of fixed commissions. In the early '70s, for example, many sloppily managed firms were driven out of business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily...
...city. In an effort to prevent riots or a possible coup attempt, new army orders forbid civilians to congregate in groups on the streets or off-duty soldiers to carry their weapons in the capital. Many Saigonese fear rape and rampage by their own troops as much as they dread an invasion by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. There have already been reports from the outskirts of marauding soldiers demanding money and bullying residents...
State Street station unremarkable, Haymarket unremarkable and a little seedy looking besides. Curious mixture, of anticipation and dread seizing the occasion. What if it's all some crazy dream of the MBTA? What if the Orange Line has never changed and never will change in the eons to come? Maybe these unremarkable taints will shuttle off to eternity between these unremarkable stations...
...such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from experiencing his work aesthetically: the scream on the Pope, like the smile on the Cheshire cat, remained while the rest of the picture evaporated. And yet, explains Bacon, "when I made the Pope screaming, I didn't want...
...nameless dread dogged him so closely that he could not work. Finally, his anguish became so acute that he decided to kill himself. So relieved was he by suicide's promise of deliverance that he broke down and wept, waking his sleeping wife, who learned for the first time how close to the edge he had gone and who helped start him on the road to recovery...