Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. is not much closer now to any sort of productive settlement. According to Beirut sources, the P.L.O. leadership last week decided to return to underground warfare against Israel. The Palestinians even announced that they were resurrecting Black September, the dread group named after the month in 1970 when King Hussein brutally kicked Palestinian commandos out of Jordan. In the past, Black September has carried out assassinations of other Arabs as well as American diplomats. If the group seriously returns, it would mark a black day. for both the world and the Palestinians...
...scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic way is an urban Walpurgisnacht of the young. Through her cast, some of whom were actual runaways, she captures the abusive home life that gives these children a rage to escape, and the confusion, dread and loneliness that ensue. One song tells of a hitchhiker who stood on a highway holding a sign saying ANYWHERE, and that says...
Such a ritual transfer of the championship can touch deep, unarticulated feelings. If men dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...
...victorious coalition of the left bringing communists into the governing majority for the first time in more than 30 years. They hold that such an event would lead to instability in Europe, weaken NATO and bolster Communist parties in other nations, particularly Italy and Spain. More important, they dread implementation of the Common Program of the Left, a 1972 plan for sweeping political and economic changes in France, including nationalizations of hundreds of companies. "Those nationalizations would destroy our economy," a conservative businessman in Brittany explained last week. "If the left arrives in power, I might take my money...
Some reasons for this dread can be found in the editors' bridging commentary. As the youngest daughter of a successful Weston, Mass. businessman, Anne believed she had been neglected and unloved by her father. "Did I ever tell you about Elizabeth?" she writes to a friend many years later. "She's manic-Anne and sometimes sexy-Anne. You've seen her. But perhaps didn't know her name. My father called me 'a-little-bitch.' I thought he meant my name was Elizabeth...