Word: dreading
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been going through a grueling monthlong song-and-dance rehearsal. Though Welch has displayed her musical and other talents for the Las Vegas crowd, she has never faced the jaded playgoers of Broadway. Says Welch: "I've always had a dread of the New York critics, but they can't close me because I'm closing in two weeks anyway...
...right-wing government immediately threw Andreas into Athens' dread Averof prison. Freed after eight months, he moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
...many of them, treatment is almost as dread as the disease: a mastectomy, which can be both physically and psychologically mutilating. But in recent years, plastic surgeons have devised a number of techniques for reconstructing breasts that reduce the aesthetic and emotional toll...
...person are not likely to be swayed by his narrative or, in fact, to read him at all. They are busy with a struggle that they think will lead to their salvation; their chosen enemies, Naipaul included, can be forgiven for regarding them with some enmity and considerable dread...
...House are dissolved in a hunt for conspiracies. Edward Durell Stone's late buildings like the U.S. embassy in New Delhi or the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., are, by any conceivable standard, maladroit and glitzy, but Wolfe will have none of that; he thinks the dread Compound laid Stone's name low not because he was a poor designer but for the crime of deviationism. Alas, the politics of architecture were never so simple...