Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal reason for such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...
...almost certain death. If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
...unsettled state of Europe, the dread potentialities of atomic war, and a lack of faith by the United States and Russia in one another's motives, have produced a condition of tenseness in which the original spirit of the United Nations plays a very poor second to national interest...
Created out of a Puritan dread of leaving "an illiterate ministry to the churches," the nation's oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating commission will recommend to the Corporation a revitalizing treatment for one of the University's neediest members, the Divinity School...
...only the men from Winthrop House. Latest attempt by the Puritan Prom sponsors to help relax those undergraduates afflicted with that dread disease "the reading rattle," the impromptu bleating succeeded in waking up half a dozen Widener nappers...