Word: dreading
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...jury's decision was influenced, however subconsciously, by stereotypical fears of black crime, events quickly conspired to intensify that dread. A crowd of protesters, mainly black, outraged by the acquittals, gathered before dusk at L.A. police headquarters. Some tried to storm the doors; others sheared off toward nearby city hall, where Mayor Tom Bradley had taken up a command post in the basement. A flag was set on fire; a booth in a parking lot sprouted flames. Under the night sky, patches of Los Angeles began to burn...
...York primary has always been surreal. Front runners get squashed there. Jimmy Carter was up 27 points four days before the 1980 voting but got flattened by Ted Kennedy. That is why Clinton arrived with a huge delegate lead (1,021 to 164) and much dread. He wanted to put Brown away in convincing fashion. This was not to be. In the last days of the campaign, a quarter of New York voters remained undecided, and Clinton's healthy lead in the polls had the feel of crepe...
...1980s has continued to shadow his campaign, even more so since his candidacy has begun to enjoy some success. No sooner had he won the New Hampshire primary than a lead editorial in the New York Times said voters needed a "firmer fix" on whether his "dread disease" might return...
...with death have lifted their lives out of the ordinary. If cancer is a metaphor, as Sontag suggests, it is not just a metaphor for death and dying. The message coming from the cancer survivors is that their terrible disease has a capacity to inspire hope as well as dread...
Although the force reduction actually began in 1990, most of the earlier downsizing was accomplished through attrition and reduced recruiting. Now the dread phrase "involuntary separation" is in vogue, and pink slips are about to go out by the thousands. Air Force Sergeant Cindy Gunter, 33, of Pope A.F.B., Fayetteville, N.C., is leaving halfway through a career she hoped would span 20 years. "I'm being thrown out, that's the way I look at it," she says. "They're making me go. I don't have a choice...