Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live by the rule of God, which is forgiveness,/Mercy and compassion, fearing that by these/ We shall be ended. And yet if we could bear/These three through dread and terror and terror's doubt . . . I cannot think/We should be the losers...
...shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley as the family pet of a wealthy rancher...
...long as the U.S. felt more or less safe, it could tolerate the idea of "coexistence" with countries dominated by an ideology the U.S. hates. But Americans are not going in for indefinite coexistence at the price they are now paying: constant dread of atomic bombing, $70 billion a year for defense, and its youth in uniform. When it began to mobilize this winter, the U.S. was not mobilizing for indefinite containment. It was mobilizing to end the present intolerable state of danger...
...person he should be or wants to be") is dealt with "at the grass roots" by the doctrine of the Atonement. "If we examine the feeling of guilt, we see that it is really a combination of two feelings: the sense of failure and the dread of just consequences. The doctrine of the Atonement also has two parts: the active obedience of Christ atoning for man's sense of failure and the passive obedience of Christ to allay man's fear of the consequences . . . Rather than frustrating [man] with demands he cannot fulfill, theology offers...
...other gambling house to that once-in-a-million bogeyman, the little gambler with a system that really works. Last week Mar del Plata had to call in the police to help them get rid of a horrifying 30 steady customers, who seemed to have found the dread formula for winning...