Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fraught with Hazards. It was against this background that Westmoreland returned to the U.S. In fact, a group of Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, had urged Johnson more than a year ago to bring the general home to address Congress on the war. The President demurred at the time. Last March, when Associated Press President Paul Miller asked Johnson during a luncheon whether it might be possible for Westmoreland to address the news services' annual luncheon, the answer was yes-if the exigencies of the war allowed...
...Warren Commission report, which said that Oswald had acted alone, was not admitted as evidence in the hearing after Judge Bernard Bagert said it was "fraught with hearsay...
Forgetting Tiny Tim. In the view of the year-end magazines, few human activities are so fraught with peril as gift giving. In Redbook, Anthropologist Margaret Mead cautioned parents not to give their children presents that will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children...
...Right You Are is fraught with secrets too terrible to tell, The School for Scandal is full of secrets too scandalous not to whisper. The APA company rubs a trifle too much humanizing balm and not enough stingingly satiric acid into the pores of the play, and the production is no 18th century match for the high-styled revival presented on Broadway three seasons ago by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Yet it does have one incomparable delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows...
...discussion and the doubts are not likely to abate, for nearly every significant incident of that tragic day is fraught with controversy and coincidence. Even a new investigation would be committed to making its own judgments and offering its best reasoned opinions-just as the Warren Commission did-in crucial areas where no firm facts exist. Thus, lacking any new evidence, there seems little valid excuse for so dramatic a development as another full-scale inquiry...