Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form of Christian affirmation" leads to clarification, it also brings about a "humorless constriction of the very terms it brings under analysis." In short, said Sittler, the context of confirmation is the "massive and organic story of man--in his analysis and anguish, his vision and his dread, his lusts, longings, loves, and loneliness...
Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...full trial finally got under way, Podola coolly persisted in his disclaimer: "I do not remember the crime for which I stand accused ... I am unable to answer the charges." The jury spent only 38 minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed but one sentence is prescribed...
...cost France $5 billion, kept 500,000 young Frenchmen under arms in Algeria and badly strained the fabric of NATO. The Communist and fascist fringes hurled insults at the President, but the great French middle, both liberal and conservative, overwhelmingly supported and applauded the bold initiative. And the dread specter of right-wing revolt all but vanished even in Algeria itself, where diehard French ultras had warned, on the eve of De Gaulle's statement, that "hundreds of thousands of Europeans and Moslems" would "take to the maquis" if self-determination was offered to Algeria...
...Dread of impending shame weighed with crushing force on Cheng Guan Lim, Chinese engineering student at the University of Michigan. He was doing badly in physics and math, thought he was sure to flunk out. Soon there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...