Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunting, and at the Hôtel de Paris the headwaiter reported that the champagne supply was rapidly being toasted away. Grace's plan for a big family was especially agreeable to the Monégasques, who felt that their Prince was closer to saving them from the dread fate of French taxes and military conscription that would result if Rainier died without a successor...
...Ceylon it is called parangi, in the Fiji Islands coco, in the Gold Coast dube. By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh. Half its estimated 50 million victims, most of whom caught it as children, are in Africa...
...said to me, 'everything will be all right.' " Far from dignifying the humanity that lies more than skin-deep, these books straitjacket the Negro within his skin: "The failure of the protest novel lies in its rejection of life, the human being, the denial of his beauty, dread, power, in its insistence that it is his categorization alone which is real and which cannot be transcended...
...hated this verse for I did not hear with pleasure that God had to be feared . . . I did not know that fear had to be mixed with joy or hope . . . We who are Christians are not entirely fearful or entirely happy. Joy is joined with fear, hope with dread, laughter with tears, so that we may believe that we shall then at last be perfectly joyous, when we have put away this flesh . . . To fear God and to trust God is alone true religion...
...Ernst Heinkel, who had lost all but one of his plants when the war ended, has been turning out small motors, midget cars. He has started hiring back some of his old designing staff, including Siegfried ("Dixi") Gunther, who designed the dread He 110 twin-engined fighter-bomber...