Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hysteria spread through Massachusetts. Young girls lived in dread of a spectral rape by the devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...
...plight of Farmer Ah Teng, a refugee from a village near Canton, was typical of China's immemorial calamity. Even war had not been so dread a scourge as the flood. "When the Japs were here," said Ah Teng, "the battle raged four times across our village. But through it all we lived in the same hut. Now the hut has been swept away. My only buffalo, the pigs and chickens-all we have is gone...
...trial ended in the tiny courtroom at Lewes, Sussex, the press gallery was packed. When the white-wigged old justice pronounced the dread words, "hanged by the neck until dead," frozen-faced Haigh listened with all the emotion of a man being fined for a traffic offense...
Meanwhile, Miss Farmer interviewed researchers, nurses, hospital attendants, superintendents, and others. Leonard found that Memorial's highly effective working laboratory was unspectacular and full of quiet purpose. What he couldn't help remembering, however, were the jolly children in Room 102 L, undergoing treatment for the dread disease, leukemia. When he sat down at his typewriter to try to tell his story clearly and accurately, without oversimplifying or sensationalizing it, the children in 102 L "automatically" became the lead...
...since the dread approach of the Spanish Armada had the people of Penzance seen so many massed ships. In one day, the blue waters of Mounts Bay were agitated by 60 British, French and Dutch warships; the air reverberated with 21-gun salutes. It was the start of week-long Western Union naval maneuvers known as Exercise Verity...