Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such gatherings of students there were both more successful and enjoyable. However, I now feel that my opinions were inaccurate. Little did I realize how savagely aggressive a police force could be in dispersing a rally which, as in London, had been permitted by the local police chief. I dread to think what the Cambridge constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group of London policemen would control the crowd, and I shudder when I think...
...noon one day last week, by special messenger from the Bureau of Prisons, came orders for a cuerda of 215 prisoners. The grapevine quickly spread the dread word. In cell block C, the Black Palace's toughest cons beat out the prison's nervousness in a clomping rhythm of heavy shoes. Off-duty guards rushed back to double the vigil; desperate inmates have been known to head off exile to the Three Marys by knifing fellow felons, thereby turning themselves into murderers awaiting trial rather than convicts eligible for island exile...
...eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed to die, cast on him the botch of leprosy. She died at last in the lord's dungeons, suffocating herself by packing her nose with earth...
...Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...
...fear explosions of discontent even more. Now & then, a rumor that favelados are about to descend from the hill in plundering hordes puts fear into carioca hearts. Such rumors floated about during last month's carnival celebrations, souring some of the city's gaiety with a vague dread...