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...Sided Plan. In the industrial north, the dread of the average man was deepest. It was no secret that in Milan, Genoa, Turin-the centers of leftist stirrings-Communists had large stores of arms and ammunition. It was an open secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads...
...week's end, Yomiuri Hochi, without using the dread word surrender, made their predicament still clearer to the Japanese people...
...food markets of "filthy Calcutta" display their uncovered wares near drains and open latrines, sprinkle them with unfiltered water. It is an open invitation to cholera, one of the dread diseases of the East...
From Stockholm to London, and then to Washington, the electric word flashed: Nazi authorities wanted to surrender all that was left of the German Army and Germany. But they wanted to surrender only to the Americans and the British, not to the dread Russians. Back went the answer: surrender to all or none...
...supposed to be the embodiment of youth's beauty and innocence. Artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) was inspired by him to paint his masterpiece. But even as the finished portrait of Dorian stood drying, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) infected the young man's mind with the dread of losing his youth and with the amoral desire to seek experience for its own sake...