Word: dreadfuls
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...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...
...will beat her into zombie silence. So Laura fakes her own death and flees to small-town safety in the care of a solicitous drama teacher (Kevin Anderson). But Martin is as tenacious as he is possessive. The Beast will find Beauty. And Laura will again be in mortal dread, as she must, of the things a man can do to a woman...
...things never change. The men who argue travel in dark limousines, not carriages, but they go over the same routes and to the same places. The agencies that must make war if it comes -- in this age, the Pentagon, chiefly -- are as before swept up in a riptide of dread, a mixture of the pall of death and the exhilaration of using the awesome machine they have designed. The Pentagon last week worked around the clock, its corridors filled with wary brass and eager arms merchants...
...plagiarize? Out of some clammy hope for fame, for a grade, for a forlorn fix of approbation. Out of dread of a deadline, or out of sheer neurotic compulsion. Plagiarism is a specialized mystery. Or the mystery may be writing itself. Many people cannot manage it. They borrow. Or they call up a term- paper service...
...Among dread diseases, from multiple sclerosis and cancer to Alzheimer's and AIDS, diabetes might appear to be one of the least threatening. If not quite perceived as conquered, it is widely viewed as a manageable, albeit serious, affliction. People with diabetes talk about living with their illness, not dying from it. To prove the point, they resolutely lead active and productive lives. Later, however, many will discover that this insidious disease has mocked their efforts to control it. Like a dormant volcano, diabetes can feign slumber for many years, only to erupt with sudden savagery...