Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Chicago's Abbott Laboratories last week, researchers sat in fascination watching the first action film of a microorganism being killed by one of the new antibiotic wonder drugs. The drug, fumagillin, killed the amoeba which causes the dread amoebic dysentery (see MEDICINE) by making it explode...
Russell Kirk* has news for most Americans: "Conservatism is something deeper than mere defense of shares and dividends, something nobler than mere dread of what is new." The American asks: "Is it? And if so, what?" The question has a special interest to a nation which is the reputed champion of a position that has almost dropped out of its own conversation...