Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking at things from the other fellow's point of view, bell-ringers Harold Allen and Harry King, who will soon be losing their titles, need no longer live in dread of forgetting their daily chores...
...following day. It was the usual attempt to equate anti-McCarthyism with pro-Communism-but this was the first time McCarthy had tried that line on such recognized conservatives as the members of the Watkins Committee. Said he: "I would have the American people recognize, and contemplate in dread, the fact that the Communist Party -a relatively small group of deadly conspirators-has now extended its tentacles to that most respected of American bodies, the U.S. Senate; that it has made a committee of the Senate its unwitting handmaiden...
...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...
...style later perfected by Adolf Hitler, he often rolled on the floor, bit his nails, beat himself over the head, and he "lived in dread of seeing his executioners burst open the door to shoot...
...Dienbienphu radio operator added his piece with no show of emotion: "There is fighting around the door. The general has ordered me to destroy this equipment. Say hello to Paris for me. Au revoir." Then silence. At GHQ, staff officers, generals, signalmen and clerks were leaden with a dread despair. "It was like hearing the tap on the hull of a submarine that lies helpless at the bottom of the sea," said one who listened...