Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden made it clear that Britain did not intend to abandon diplomatic recognition of Mao Tse-tung, the new agreement on trade with Red China removed one of the most dangerous conflicts between British and American Far Eastern policy. Even those Americans who still hold to an almost superstitious dread of the subtle cunning and persuasiveness of British diplomats had to admit that this time the U.S. had done a good, if belated, piece of business...
...wish our friends the world over to know this above all: we face the threat-not with dread and confusion-but with confidence and conviction...
...ancient Hebrews decreed that a warning blast should be sounded on the shofar to mark the third case of an infectious disease in a community, but diphtheria rated a shofar warning for the very first case. Few diseases have been so dreaded as diphtheria, partly because it is especially deadly for children in the tender two-to-five age bracket. Last week Yeshiva University in New York City held a special convocation to give an honorary degree to a physician who had done much to take the dread out of diphtheria: Bela Schick, the little-known man behind the famous...
Americans are beginning to recognize his face: a pudgy, petulant face which has begun to appear in official Soviet photographs next to Stalin's aging, feline mask. Malenkov was once even empowered to affix the dread signature of Stalin to certain documents, with a special rubber stamp. And more is rumored: that this short (5 ft. 7 in), fat (250 Ibs.), 50-year-old man will inherit Stalin's power. This week, as the19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party convenes in Moscow, great new honors will come to the wielder of Stalin's rubber stamp...
Across a vied of mystery and dread...