Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists for the B. I. S. were successfully emplanting in the public mind that it would be "a cash register for German reparations" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), not a competitor. All this the work of Tycoon McGarrah...
...Meanwhile, the wets must do the worrying. We have predicted that the repeal of the state enforcement law would be followed by increased drunkenness. It is up to the wets to see that our prediction does not come true. I sincerely hope that they will succeed, for I dread an orgy of drunkenness, of moonshining and rum-running more than I dread any other plague...
...great coffee city of Sao Paulo, capital of that state, more newspapers were sacked and a "Bastille" fell. In this building, the dread Cambucy prison, the mob found what were said to be "man whips" and "wooden instruments of torture." Soon mobsters ignited the infamous prison (after setting free all prisoners), cheered while it burned...
Lenin was no Jew, Trotsky (born Bronstein) is but has been exiled. "The present Soviet Dictator, Josef Stalin, is no Jew. The chief of the dread Ogpu or Soviet secret police, Comrade Menzhinsky...
...which nearly all governments- have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately and secretly last week in Swiss Geneva (see col. 2). Of 51 assembly ballots cast by as many nations, League tellers threw out four...