Word: dreading
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...Their hearts are even emptier than their purses. The title character of Chekhov's first full-length play, a man in paralytic despair, candidly performs a self-autopsy: "I haven't the heart to believe in anything. I hope for nothing, care for no one. I only dread the thought of waking up every morning...
...faculty and curriculum, economic aid for poor students, and a rule that no student be expelled without a hearing. Then, the students called on 15 private schools in Mexico City, including the American and British high schools, to close down as well. The schools complied out of sympathy-or dread...
...reason for the weakness of the plan is the University's mysterious dread of using computers. A Faculty Committee report of two years ago recommended computer-assignment under another plan, but the University, fearing adverse student reaction, turned it down. Whatever the merits of the plan, the University should not have rejected computerization, which would save everybody weeks of paperwork...
...sexually repressed girl to her fantasies. And never has the inch-by-inch descent into total madness been more startlingly recreated on film. Slowly, Polanski assembles the fragments of a nightmare mosaic. A man's undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom ravisher begins to stalk the tiny flat...
...United States should attempt to sponsor the revolutions, rather than oppose them, in hopes of preventing them from becoming subservient to the U.S.S.R. or China. He further criticized the policy of military containment of Communism as eventually ineffective and perhaps ultimately fatal. Armed American repression would create "too much dread" and engender a world-wide anti-American coalition...