Word: dreading
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This was quite enough intelligence for a simple, happy life. Elmer and Elsie might starve to death if their batteries ran down far from a current supply, but they did not dread death or any other misfortune. Their two-tube brains had no memories to plague them with apprehension. So they crept in innocent bliss around the Walter house, alternately resting and sipping electricity like a mechanical Adam & Eve in a pre-reptilian Garden...
...time yellow jack was lurking in the jungles. The dread mosquito carriers spread yellow fever from animal to animal, and from animals to the few men who ventured deep into the forests. The doctors and engineers who cleaned up the cities and labor camps of Panama never suppressed the guerrillas in the jungle...
...repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live by the rule of God, which is forgiveness,/Mercy and compassion, fearing that by these/ We shall be ended. And yet if we could bear/These three through dread and terror and terror's doubt . . . I cannot think/We should be the losers...
...shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley as the family pet of a wealthy rancher...
...person he should be or wants to be") is dealt with "at the grass roots" by the doctrine of the Atonement. "If we examine the feeling of guilt, we see that it is really a combination of two feelings: the sense of failure and the dread of just consequences. The doctrine of the Atonement also has two parts: the active obedience of Christ atoning for man's sense of failure and the passive obedience of Christ to allay man's fear of the consequences . . . Rather than frustrating [man] with demands he cannot fulfill, theology offers...