Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, the Clinton team is determined to try. It lives in dread of an NSSE--the Disneyesque abbreviation for a national-security special event that triggers special precautions. But with Y2K happening all across the world, a flood of threats has washed in from every corner of the globe, and suspicious characters have been arrested. There's no shortage of danger out there. The government has conducted drills in 27 cities for an NSSE, but the real strategy is "Raise your defenses and plan for the aftermath." So when the Administration's heavy hitters convened in the basement...
...MONSTER.COM'S WHEN I GROW UP A good Sunday-football ad is about dread--over money (investments), mortality (insurance) and, here, going back to work on Monday morning. In the employment site's Super Bowl spot, straight-faced kids recited career "dreams" ("I want to be forced into early retirement") that spoofed not only the rat race but other ads' phony, chicken-soup-for-the-sell affirmations...
...maybe The Hurricane is a boxing movie. Or maybe, as this reviewer starts to note with some dread, it is something else altogether: a critique of the American judicial system even up to the 1990's, where the hand-in-hand complicity of police and the justice system prevents Carter's release from prison in order to cover up police corruption in New Jersey. With dizzying rapidity, Jewison now whips up righteous lawyers who passionately rail against the judicial system as well as shady police officers who threaten the three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause...
...Being old" doesn't mean that you have to use crutches when you walk to the bathroom or that your idea of a fantastic time is bingo night at the community center. If you're old enough to dread growing up, odds are you already have. After all, Peter Pan, the classic fantasty about a boy who never grows up, was written by a nostaligic old man. The dread of adulthood and the idealization of childhood into a utopian never-never-land is a phenomenon only adults can experience...
...many families, report cards are an occasion of dread and distress. But for the Greens in the suburbs of Baltimore, Md., they're an invitation to celebrate. Of course, that's partly because Erica, 12, and Monica, 16, usually bring home A's and B's. But it's also because their parents look beyond the grades. What's most important, says their mother Brenda, is that Monica and Erica "have learned as much as they can and have done the best job they're capable of doing." To honor their learning and hard work, Brenda and her husband Gregory...