Word: dreadfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following are three comments that university presidents--and football coaches--dread. Wrote one irate graduate (class of 1927), "If you think fund raising isn't affected by our football record, try collecting from some of the average alumni. I have." Another ('22) said, "Should we divert a little attention from the Ford Foundation's gift of 7 1/2 million bucks and give it to the football situation? From a purely sales-pitch angle, it will bring in more dollars than all that high-falutin' 'larnin'.' In industry, earnings count. In a college, I believe alumni...
Freud is not mocked. Next morning, on the subway, the smell and pressure of flesh make her sick with disgust. Dread like suppuration oozes from the deep, unmedicated wound in her mind. She sinks into fevered apathy, and one day in a daze almost jumps off-does it always have to be a bridge? Anyway, a big dumb slob of a grease monkey (Ralph Meeker) grabs her just in time...
...Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools as he laid out the urgent job for Negro colleges. "You and only you," said he, "are in a position to speak to millions of Negroes in the United States who have not escaped the apathy, the loss of vision, the dread resignation before harsh circumstances that mark the walking wounded in a 300-year battle for freedom and full citizenship...
...Minutemen [Nov. 3] connote a creepy sensation. Thoughts of these persons roaming the countryside instill as great a dread as enemy invasion. There would be bloodshed among our own, for who would submit to these lawless bands, which are a natural recess for enemy agents and crackpots? History is replete with the dreadful accounts of predatory irregulars...
Edward Jenner had found, before 1800, an empirical method of protecting man against one dread disease now known to be caused by a virus: infection with cowpox ("vaccinia," hence the general term vaccination) would ward off later infection with the deadly and disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...