Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot predict the future with assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future...
...revived sentiment for an income tax. It was strictly and frankly a soak-the-rich measure. In 1893, a St. Louis editor urged William Jennings Bryan to lead a crusade for a graded tax of 5% or 10% on incomes over $10,000. "There is nothing those Eastern plutocrats dread so much as that...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...Giles lives in daily dread of the dry, snapping sound that means another broken bone for Barry. But she takes consolation in the fact that although brittleness of the bones is thought to be inherited, Barry's four brothers are all normal. And Dr. R. R. Hunter, who has made a special study of the child, believes there is hope for Barry himself: many victims improve later in life. Then, too, they can be treated with sex hormones...
...Flight from God has some of the quality of a spiritual Nineteen Eighty-Four, although Picard, who uses no allegories, plainly feels that 1984 is here right now. He calls his times "The World of the Flight" because unbelief and "Dread"-"The Flight from God"-have replaced Faith as the essence of life. In a world where all truths have become relative and experimental, the only reality left is change. "The man of the Flight," Picard writes, "has no firm standard against which to measure himself. He has only the possibilities." Philosopher Picard's book is a fleeting, sometimes...