Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctors dread an embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...special added, non-Islamic benefit. If the wife left him and went home to mother, and her husband still wanted her, he had simply to appeal to the courts, and the judge would obligingly sentence her to the Bait al-Taah, the House of Obedience. Under this dread practice, the police would arrest the woman wherever they found her-on the street, in her parents' home-and hand her back to the aggrieved husband. He could then rent living quarters, usually below her usual standards, and furnish them minimally, having to satisfy the court that it is "between good...
...rain-soaked Eastern Hills of India, the bamboo forests flower only about once in 50 years. And to the wiry little mountain men of the remote Mizo Hills district, the flowering is a dread omen of approaching famine. They believe that the tender shoots and the seeds encourage a vast overbreeding of jungle rats. Once this food supply is exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water...
...half a dozen languages (German, French, Italian, English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin) and considerably more centuries. There was no pattern to his year's reading, but B.B. had a mind in which even fragments became touchstones of his aristocratic, rational, classicist temper. Sample reflections: ¶"I have always instinctively dreaded mysticism (although fascinated by it) as endangering the light of reason-a poor light, nearly always smoking, and often stinking, but yet all we have to let us go forward a few feet in a century." ¶I "Ahab [of Moby Dick] is only a rebel, not a Prometheus...
...many ex-Nazis," explains a Socialist official. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's policy is still to ignore fanatic elements like the German Reich Party on the theory that its members will grow old and their issues will be forgotten by a democratically schooled youth. What many Germans, including Adenauer, dread is some unforeseen event, such as a heavy economic or political reverse for Germany, that could give the tiny German Reich Party an importance that it now certainly cannot claim...