Word: dreading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...including commissioners, are deeply concerned about the long-range effect of such secrecy. They realize that in. the blackness, sprinkled with atom bombs, that surrounds their expanding empire, all sorts of unhealthy and startling growths might sprout unobserved. They know well that they hold in their hands the most dread power in the world...
...Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss so far: thousands of miles of valuable farmlands, more than 150 lives and 30,000 cattle; relief and reconstruction funds will be equivalent to more than a quarter of Italy's annual...
...Communist dishonestly teaching a doctrine he does not believe, then it seems he is to be accepted, while if the answer is "yes," if this Communist teacher will openly teach and advocate communism, then it appears we are to fire him, and restrict our contact with this dread doctrine to the rather outmoded and frenetic Communist Manifesto...
...from me to try and explain the movie. Perhaps it should be said that the film is not all abstract. A great deal of emotion fuses the color and sounds together. And for those who have a dread of the esoteric, it might be added that their baser instincts will be thoroughly aroused by a number of the scenes. Apparently everything passed over the head of the censors except Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." On her, they have had some black discs appropriately placed. But throughout the rest of the film the libidos of the painters and musicians have...
...very embarrassing-but not for newspapers and slick magazines. And not for Harry Truman, who is often blissfully unaware of whether his foot is in his shoe or his mouth. The victims were Truman's staff, whose unenviable lot it is to stand holding their breaths in dread of what the 32nd President of the U.S. may say next...