Word: dreading
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...state legislative experts are now waiting in dread for what other well-organized minorities may do to laws they dislike. While appropriations cannot be suspended in Michigan by referendum, tax legislation can-and a diehard group of tax haters could nullify the new income tax now under consideration and plunge the state into fiscal disarray merely by passing around petitions. Nor is there any easy way to prevent them. Because the right of referendum is guaranteed by the Constitution, a referendum cannot be mounted to eliminate it. The only way to change it is by the tortuous process of constitutional...
Under Miller's patient probing, any number of dread disorders may be identified. The anxiety syndrome and dominance frustration affect a dog who thinks that its master is too unmanly to protect the home; the animal feels that it must boss the household, and so attacks anybody who comes around. The secretary syndrome arises when the master works late at the office; the dog becomes tense and irritable because its master is not at home on time. In barrier frustration, the dog gets infuriated because it cannot break its lesh. Psychosexual misorientation is something esle...
...from above. The children's heads are tiny, their shadows elongated and spidery, as the boy who is "it" proceeds to stamp them out, one by one. As his black sneaker hovers over the shadows, it seems like some malevolent predator, creating the mixed sense of excitement and dread that attends children at play...
...Enrico IV and the APA Repertory Company's Right You Are If You Think You Are. The themes of loneliness, isolation and alienation were all carved out by Pirandello with consummate craft. In the 31 years since his death, serious modern drama has become a domain of metaphysical dread of which he felt the first tormented shudder...
...course sometimes the "no" is inevitable. Tonis has a healthy dread of the legendary "spring riot," and more bursar's cards numbers are taken at such gatherings than anywhere else (contrary to popular myth, the police rarely take cards, since numbers are enough to identify students...