Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church. But Paisley eventually produced what he said was a tape recording of Maura's voice, and played it to an audience consisting of all of Belfast's 1,000 Free Presbyterians, Maura's family and the police. "My Roman Catholic religion had been fear and dread," said the voice. "The new religion to which I was introduced was simple and free from fear." Three priests had been called in, and she was about to be carted off to a convent. "I took the opportunity to escape while the priests were having...
...league. "Well," said father Piersall, "that isn't first." So next year, stoked with aspirin and desperation, Jim burned up the base lines and copped the batting title. At 21 he was called up to the Red Sox. It was the big test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went berserk on the ball field and woke up in a straitjacket...
...good points of Existentialism, he stated, are that it demands "facing up to the worst" in a hostile universe and that it gives a sense of dread of nothing-ness. He calls this second point "a fundamental fact in human life" very much like the Old Testament sense of awe in the face...
...Arcy said, however, that Existentialism alone is unsatisfactory. He suggested that the experience of being recognized by another human being offers a way out. Once a person can participate in human relationships, he will come to "a sense of a presence that brings love instead of a dread of nothingness...
Even more startling than recent overall advances in surgery is the improved outlook for aged patients who need operations. Surgeons used to dread such cases; all too often the patient went into shock on the operating table, or died soon after of pneumonia. How radically things have changed is pointed out by Surgeon Sidney E. Ziffren of the State University of Iowa. "Successful surgery is now constantly performed in the aged," he notes. "Surgery should not be withheld because of a patient...