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Japan's psychopathic fear of air raids has been mounting steadily since Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. Propagandists deliberately played on the dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses...
...valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last of them with anticipation rather than with dread...
Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
...should have lived," Eugenie wrote when she was 17, "a century earlier. The ideas that are dearest to me are now ridiculous. ... I have a mixture of dreadful passions in me. ... I fight against them, but I lose the struggle and in the end my life will end miserably, lost in passion, virtue and foolishness." Eugenie was almost a textbook image of ambitious and dislocated womanhood, tinged with the dread occupational diseases of hysteria and frigidity. But in her flaming devotion to an idea, she was magnificent. Her 93 years were one long, un-flickering act of faith...
...telling of his early surgical cases, Dr. Seagrave reveals a side of the surgeon which few laymen realize exists: "I looked forward with dread to every new operation I had to do. But I never had any overwhelming love for a quitter. When a new operation needed to be done, I got out my books and studied every detail. Then I was profusely sick, went to bed on it, and the next morning, still nauseated, started operating...