Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Countrymen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance." With that dramatic warning, the Polish Communist Party appealed last week for an end to the labor unrest that had brought Poland to what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread scenario of Moscow intervening to prevent a key satellite from abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events...
...reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing the battered corpses with sickening regularity. By week's end the official death toll stood at nearly 3,000-a fraction, it was feared, of the actual total. More frightening still was the realization that a dread dimension of human failure had been added to an accident of nature: many who died of shock and exposure might have lived had help reached them more quickly...
...West's unease seemed trifling next to the dread in Poland before the supreme court ruling. "People were afraid of something happening-chaos, confrontation, the police, a stupid move by somebody," said a Warsaw journalist. Observed a Western diplomat: "They were huddling around their radios, and trying to remember what they had heard about the events preceding the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
PHILADELPHIA--About 15 minutes into Harvard's contest with Penn Saturday, every Crimson player must have felt a sickening emptiness in his stomach--not pain exactly, just the physical manifestation of dread...
...rumbustious squires, no more hilarious cockneys, no more sneaking, slavering villains or appealing waifs, no more enchantments at all from the man who correctly dubbed his own work "inimitable." His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, its sentences as convoluted as London streets, its title ominously resonant of "dread" and "mood," lies half done: 23 chapters and some scattered notes. Like such unfinished masterpieces as Schubert's Eighth Symphony, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Drood powerfully intrigues readers and writers. Publishers offer Dickens' friend Wilkie Collins, author...