Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris taxi drivers had only one question for their U.S. passengers: "How is General Ike?" The people of Western Europe had awaited Ike's arrival half in dread, fearful that illness had drained his vitality and transformed the buoyant commander of World War II into a tired old man. But as the President of the U.S. plunged eagerly into a hectic round of private talks and public appearances, fear gave way to reassurance. "Ike's smile," reported Paris' Journal du Dimanche, "has again played its magic role...
Bilateral disarmament discussions admittedly come under this heading. If the United States and Russia set themselves up to decide the survival of the world, the smaller European nations, including France and Britain, will surely feel out in the cold. The minor NATO countries have developed a not irrational dread against any expression of power polarization, and particularly against negotiations in which they are not consulted...
Says Jones: "The theme of death, the dread of it and the wish for it, had always been a continual preoccupation of Freud's mind as far back as we know anything about it." Freud's reactions to his mother's death at 95 were unusual. She had been in great pain, so he was glad of her release. Beyond that, he was relieved that now he was free to die without causing her grief-he had always, he said, been afraid that he might die first and cause her suffering. Freudian Jones sees in this...
...pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could sell the milk...
...their trail, Kelly and Barbara feud continuously over whose child is the culpable genius of the escape. At one point the young refugees, trapped amidst some NATO ground maneuvers, totally thwart the efforts of a pushbutton general (hammishly caricatured by Michael Redgrave) to pinpoint them, even outwit his dread Operation Meatloaf ("Not intended for use until the Red army is actually in Trafalgar Square"). Amusing except when it pleads ponderously for international understanding, The Happy Road eventually reunites everybody in Paris, hints that Gene and Barbara will henceforth travel on the family plan...