Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn Wait for the last mummer, dread...
...Strength Dedicated." Ike then spaced his words carefully: "We honor, no less in this divided world than in a less tormented time, the people of Russia. We do not dread, rather do we welcome their progress in education and industry. We wish them success in their demands for more intellectual freedom, greater security before their own laws, fuller enjoyment of the rewards of their own toil. For as such things may come to pass, the more certain will be the coming of that day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship...
FLYING back from the South Pole to McMurdo Sound one day this month, Correspondent Edwin Rees of TIME'S Washington Bureau learned firsthand about the dread Antarctic whiteout, the dazzle of reflected light that erases all landmarks and horizons. It was, said an airman, "like flying inside a pingpong ball." The big Air Force troop carrier groped for the icy runway, plowed into a snowbank and slithered over the ice with nose down and tail high. "The feel and sound of 150,000 pounds of airplane sliding out of control is an experience I would like only once," said...
...three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), taking the "days" as years and the cleansing of the sanctuary as the end of the world. William Miller, a Baptist minister of Low Hampton, N.Y., was not an educated man, but he was sincere and persuasive; when the dread year came, Millerites from Vermont to Virginia settled their affairs and waited. Scoffers made fun of them by donning white robes and climbing trees and hilltops to look for the Lord's coming, and when the appointed time had passed and the earth was still the same, they jeered...
...make a man of the boy. The only person who really knows Tom and likes him. though, is the housemaster's wife (Deborah Kerr. no kin to John). In the end. when Tom has been driven to suicidal desperation by the taunts of his pals and a panic dread that he may really be what they say he is, it is she who restores his soul by giving him her body...