Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden appearance of a Cessna 172 in the flight path of a Boeing 727 last week was the kind of disaster that commercial airline pilots dread, and all too many of them can describe near escapes in similar situations. Despite the statistical evidence that air travel is constantly becoming safer, America's airspace is getting more and more crowded. Last year there were 187,473 nonmilitary aircraft darkening the nation's skies, of which only 2,473, or 1.3%, were commercial airliners...
...Jimmy Carter set out aboard Air Force One for Caracas last week, aides passed out a two-page memo to the 170 reporters who accompanied him aboard two chartered planes. Entitled "Health Advisory for Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes...
...Tongsun Park has kept a low profile. He has been spending most days testifying in secret before the House and Senate ethics committees about his activities during the late 1960s and early '70s as South Korea's celebrated influence buyer in Washington. Because his testimony strikes dread into the hearts of many Washingtonians, most of his old acquaintances, whom he used to wine and dine so lavishly, now shun him. He lives in a rented house, his two Washington mansions seized by the IRS for unpaid taxes. Aside from the federal marshals who act as his bodyguards...
...rationale for Castle's dread of danger and professional compromise is supposed to be his complete devotion to his wife and child. Greene certainly tells us enough about their love for each other, dramatizing it with numerous domestic scenes and intimate exchanges in bed. But for all the love that Castle assures us has passed between them over the years, there remains something of the removed foreign observer in Castle's attitude toward his black wife, Sarah, and her son, Sam. Describing a touching caress after a long day at the office, Greene writes: "He felt the black contours...
...human rights. When Communist Russia and Capitalist America finally stand before the dread Judgment Seat neither, I imagine, will lack for accusers. Yes, Moscow's record on individual liberties is execrable. But the black ghettos in American cities are unforgivable. How can the richest nation countenance them...