Word: dreading
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...came as a relief to the people on both sides of the Rhine that both Governments agreed, in the event of a final rupture of the treaty negotiations, that there would be no dread tariff war. France made known that her general tariff rates (for all countries not benefiting by a most favored nation treaty) would apply to German goods. Germany declared that her single tariff for all countries would be applied to French goods...
...trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal...
...life in this week's "Collier". There is a story of a balky uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
Long ago, in the days of Philip of Macedon, when whole armies hurled themselves against the dread Macedonian phalanx, Macedonia was a great and independent country. Today, Macedonia is merely a geographical expression; its territories are divided principally between Yugoslavia and Greece...
...China and the Malayan Archipelago; in Egypt and other parts of Africa; in the Balkans, Austria, Hungary, Germany and other parts of Europe. Such is its character that the man who suffers from it burrows in darkness, and lives out his life (for the disease is generally incurable) in dread of the light. Any brightness sears the nerves of the brain like molten metal. Great efforts have been made to keep the disease out of the U. S.; it has nevertheless crept in. Over 70,000 Amerindians are reported to have it. It is most common in the Alleghenies, Tennessee...