Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McWhorter introduced Sinclair Weeks '14, former United States Senator and Republican Committeeman, who called the coming election "the most important of all time. No other has been more fraught with good and evil than this one," he said...
...business fraught with hazardous gambling and desperate financial uncertainties, Betty Grable comes about as close as Hollywood can get to a surefire, gilt-edged investment. The profits from her movies (something like $15 million over the last eight years) have left her boss, Producer Darryl Zanuck, free to dabble with such weighty but financially risky topics as political history (Wilson), lynching (The Ox-Bow Incident) and anti-Semitism (Gentleman's Agreement...
...Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...
Winthrop's quintet oozed back into a first place tie with Dunster in the intramural leagues last night with a 46 to 44 triumph over Lowell, while Kirkland toppied Eliot 45 to 41 in a foul-fraught fracas...
...machinery that has been grinding out monthly chuckles for almost three generations of Cantabrigians is set between three walls of the island fortress that guards the Mt. Auburn Street approaches to the Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife...