Word: dreading
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...more a truce than a treaty, but last week's steel settlement lifted a great burden from U.S. business, which had lived in dread and uncertainty for months about the possibility of a strike. The stock market climbed to three new records after the news, wound up the week with the Dow-Jones average standing at a robust 922. Most important, relief turned to a fresh wave of optimism as good economic news continued to pour...
...mass-production methods; but it does greatly stimulate the search for answers. In short, if it does not guarantee excellence, it promises improvement. And it begins to fulfill the goal set forth in the 1830s by Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, who said: "We must teach our citizens to dread ignorance more than they dread taxation...
...increasing desire to assert a national identity, hardly a novel emotion. Polls show that reunification is a burning question for a majority of West Germans. Obviously, the lack of real nationhood could give the spark of opportunity to precisely the kind of German ultranationalism that the world learned to dread in two world wars...
...VIET NAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA, the former states of Indo-China, would be locked in a vicious cycle of nationalistic enmity even if Communist aggression disappeared overnight. Vietnamese armies have harried Laos for centuries, earning the Laotians' hate and dread. North and South Vietnamese alike look down on Cambodia, which they helped France rule. Cambodia's dyspeptic Prince Sihanouk snubs Laos, hates neighboring Thailand (a Thai premier once called him publicly "a pig"), and gibes disdainfully that "all Vietnamese are married to women with black teeth...
...Casement and two other Irishmen landed on the Galway coast from a German submarine; they were captured the next day. The result was one of the century's most notorious treason trials. In its mixture of nationalist hate and sexual perversion, it seemed to expose a whole dread, unsuspected side of the Edwardian...