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Religious Frustration. Here I reach the point I dread, where the objection is raised: of course, politics will never save Europe. Who ever thought it would? Basically, the problem is spiritual. How about the moral reinvigoration of Europe by religion? Well, that is what I have been looking for over here, and there isn't any. That statement could be made more diplomatically. . . . But it is true as it stands...
...dread Dred Scott decision...
...epidemic of the dread polar paralysis...
Speed makes the difference-a higher order of speed. Many military planes can plunge in a power dive, faster & faster until the needle of the airspeed indicator creeps close to the dread red mark of "compressibility." At this critical speed, the airstream, accelerated by crowding over the curved surfaces, reaches at certain spots the speed of sound.† Then a standing sound wave may form on the wing or tail, roaring and hammering, perhaps chewing holes in the plane's skin or freezing the controls...
...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...