Word: dreading
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...reaction was a growing sense of dread and horror that this was being done in my name,” said Megan Crowley ’05, who attended the Kirkland House discussion...
...years of Saddam's absolute rule will ignite an orgy of sectarian struggles and vendetta killings among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. They worry that this, in turn, will prompt the intervention of Turkish and Iranian military forces seeking the protection of their respective interests. The dread is that America's war will turn Iraq into "another Palestine," a consuming crisis that feeds Middle East instability for decades to come...
...first Prime Minister in the democratic era, to avoid being put in jail himself. The gangland-style assassination - Djindjic was gunned down by sniper fire in broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia in the final years of Milosevic's rule and the chaos and dread that many Serbs had hoped was behind them. Known for his wit, energy and commitment to pro-Western reforms, Djindjic was on a campaign to stamp out organized crime within the state security forces and society as a whole - and it may have cost him his life. According...
...facial hair and sugary tunes going to appease us before we want something more? How long are entertainers like Pink and Britney Spears going to speak for our generation before we find something important to say? When our kids ask us what kind of music we listened to, I dread to think that the answer might be “P.O.D.” or “Insane Clown Posse...
...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, in the form of a mushroom cloud that could be seen 250 miles away. President Truman's order to drop the atom bomb brought a decisive end to the war in the Pacific, but it marked the beginning of an era of dread and controversy from which we have never escaped. The issues that preoccupy us now as much as ever are not only moral ones about when it is acceptable to use weapons of mass destruction but also existential ones about the nuclear threat to life on earth...