Word: dreading
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...from the Pentagon about nuking America's least-loved Muslim states isn't going to help Vice President Cheney persuade the Arab world that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are sufficient reason to support a war that U.S. allies in the Arab world are already regarding with considerable dread...
...center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over the hard realities of life. But by double exposing the film in his camera Faurer also added to the accident scene a wedding party on the steps of a church. Death and continuity, innocence and experience, street realism and stick...
...relentlessly confident 1980s, the tatami makers of Kagami sent a delegation to teach Chinese farmers how to raise igusa and weave tatami. "I had a slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops...
...half a dozen other characters, including "Rocky" the town's inhabitant in 100,000 B.C. "There goes Ogg," he thinks, "'Mr. Sunshine' - what's his secret? I'll kill him." Between them all Clowes builds another of his hilariously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live...
...time he arrived, it was bedlam, thousands of people both fleeing and searching for survivors. Sincock tried to find his wife but also helped out, bringing water to rescuers, manning stretchers at triage sites and helping to set up temporary morgues. He stayed until 11 p.m., his dread deepening, and then returned at 4 a.m. to help out again. Six hours later, he got a call on his cell phone telling him Cheryle was officially among the missing...