Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about a railroad train hitting a girl named Lucy; "The track was juicy, the juice was Lucy." His fans are currently enrolling...
...hope your authors will give some thought to my remarks. No solution is in sight at this end. In fact, my chief dread right now is that when I get out of graduate school hero at Yale and get into the Army I will have a sergeant who went to neither Harvard nor Yale. Stephen O. Saxe...
...Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such a hazard might well settle the Korean war and all other pending global issues on equitable terms...
...contrary. It would have been more comfortable to be without Him than to live with Him. He puts burdens on the soul, which one would rather let pass by unheeded. He exacts a great deal with His demands. And when one thinks that the cross is not so dread, which His children take upon themselves, then comes the moment when it grows very dread indeed...
Leverett's biggest disadvantage though, is the feeling of dread which newly-assigned members carry into their first year. The contrast between the expected and the real is so pleasantly shocking that Hutch men spend the rest of their residency futilely trying to persuade frightened freshmen of Leverett's virtues...