Word: dreadfulness
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...Enos had gone to church while he was at school, but like most Zuñis he had little understanding of Christianity. The gods that Artilleryman Enos worships are the Katchinas, the masked dancers whose sacred dual identity was revealed to him some six years ago at the dread Whipping Ceremony at which Zuñi boys become...
...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria forsk) has made its name dread to generations of African and Middle Eastern farmers from Biblical times down to the recent destructive plague of locusts in Iran...
OMan will probably make few cakes. He will retire soon to one of those dread no-man's-lands behind the concrete shields of nuclear reactors or plutonium processing plants. There he will work in a bath of radiation that would strike a human dead, and his massive steel body will become so radioactive that his human creators can never come near him again...
...three centuries of academic grubbing, scholars have tidied up and clarified William Shakespeare's manuscripts, making archaic words intelligible to the ordinary reader. But the bard's most dedicated fans want their Shakespeare straight. One such was Herbert Farjeon, a British amateur scholar whose special dread was the day when Shakespeare would be read in "Nu Spelin and Nu Punctuashun." In 1933 he brought out not only the handsomest but the best-edited Shakespeare in existence...
...book, Partners in Plunder, in which he "proved," Hutchinson recalls, that "J. Pierpont Morgan owned the Episcopal Church, Andrew Mellon had the Presbyterians in his vest pocket, and as for the Baptists-well, hadn't Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller's kept preacher, once said: 'Personally, I dread the thought of collectivism ... as I would dread the devil...