Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule, and the day closes with a sense of futility and a dread of the professorial wrath to come...
...this His Majesty replied: "It is hard now to realize the dread and apprehension with which formerly even minor surgical operations were regarded. The change in our ideas is due partly to the discovery of anesthetics and perhaps even more to Lister's work...
...Final Victor" by Arduino laricci, slashingly delineates Death Rampant-over the figures of Mussolini, Morgan, Clemenceau, Rockefeller, George V, etc.-with dread factories and battlefields in the background...
Later, May, even more dread...
...Summers?Knopf ($5). Witches and sorcerers were the starved souls and anarchists of their heyday?from the 12th Century to the 18th. They existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic...