Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adult member of the Move household, Ramona Africa, is scheduled to be sentenced. She faces seven to 14 years in prison after an "old-fashioned political trial," as The Nation put it, in which Ramona--who it appears had taken a course in law and worked as a paralegal, dread locks and all--caught the judge on judicial procedure and made him eat his own words...
...superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...
Water levels are rising because of years of abnormal amounts of rain and snowfall, 26% above normal in the lakes basin during 1985 alone. With damages totaling well above $15 million since last spring, lake dwellers are heading into the snowmelt and storm season with growing dread...
...Something about this killing has stirred this community," says William Prahl, California's deputy attorney general. "These people won't forget it." Neighbors say that Marlene's parents, now in their 70s, dread the possible reopening of the case. They still reside in Hanford, though the house they lived in at the time of their daughter's death has long since been torn down. The memories have been harder to demolish. "The sad thing is that it keeps coming back," says Marlene's brother Walter Jr. "We have not been allowed the time to heal." And the end is still...
...20th century rumbles to an end, American designers' enduring fascination with Tomorrow has revived. But Tom Swift is dead. This time around, the fashionably conceived future involves a certain cultivated disillusion, a kind of callow, teasing Weimar dread. The thrill is gone...