Word: dreadfulness
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What that unattractive convention wanted was a leader who could deliver them from dread. To eliminate the worry and fear of Asian Communists, lawless protesters, higher taxes, nuclear war, and arrogant welfare parasites is to eliminate thought, and so bring peace. Thus the friendly trips to Peking and Moscow are in perfect congruity with a stepped-up defense program and a perpetual war in Indochina; all serve to keep the hated Communists from attacking or even threatening us at home...
...recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayanan. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children or have merely reached on untenable age. "Do the sacrificed elders often have a reaction of dread and rebellion?" de Beauvoir asks. She thinks evidence proves they do. Yet spanning the centuries as well as the distance between East and West, she concludes that old that old age has become life's parody in all societies, an end so degrading that it incurs more dread and rebellion...
...Dread Sound. To aid that prosecution, the state attorney general's office and a grand jury have been conducting their own intensive investigation, but so far they have filed no charges. Two weeks ago, Chief Prosecutor Robert Fischer sought to supplement his information by subpoenaing the McKay commission's confidential records. Announcing that he would fight, the commission's general counsel angrily declared that he had obtained most interviews only by promising that they would not be shown to the prosecutor, an arrangement agreed to by the state...
...arbitrary parole procedures. The report is pessimistic about long-range reform. "The cycle of misunderstanding, protests and reaction continues," the commissioners said, "and confrontation remains the only language in which inmates feel they can call attention to the system. The possibility that the Attica townspeople will again hear the dread sound of the powerhouse whistle is very real." Moreover, it is not only in upstate New York that such an alarm may be sounded. "Attica," warns the report, "is every prison, and every prison is Attica...
...South Vietnamese are no strangers to bombing. Since 1966, an estimated 65% of all American bombs have been dropped on the South, making the mighty B-52 an object of dread and fear. The giant bombers, silent and invisible at 30,000 ft., are first announced by the whistling of scores of falling bombs. On contact, the strike shakes the earth for miles around, raising a holocaust of dust, smoke and debris. Well-dug-in guerrillas can frequently survive an attack, but a peasant in his field has little chance...