Word: dreading
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...earth, the impulses of growing vegetation, the flow of waters, the sweep of winds, the souls of animals, the souls of men good & evil, the living, the dead, press in upon him from, the night. He finds relief from their imminence in simple patterns of beauty and dread-and the primitive fairy tale is born...
Said a Baltimore housewife: "I dread the thought that it was discovered. I was never enthusiastic about it, even when we knew it was ending the war. I'm glad no other country discovered it; I wish we could find some way of destroying the plans and the secret so no one would know about it, including us. ... The bomb is inhuman...
...this dread order break-for whom? for thee...
...Colchicine - an extract of the autumn crocus, useful in gout - has been tried in some half-dozen cases of leukemia, the dread blood disease. No one has been saved from leukemia by colchicine, which slows down the division of living cells, but Dr. W. Harding Kneedler of Philadelphia thinks that colchicine helps and that "further trial . . . seems justified...
...terrorists, who had proclaimed an underground patri sarka (government of broken feet) in opposition to the Raj, terrorized and looted for 14 months. In the villages, their "courts" executed eight suspected informers, medievally mutilated another 74. Last week 1,500 Bombay police had finally shattered the reign of dread, arrested one of its principal leaders...