Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room. KGYO. KGYO 20 miles south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke...
...naked, sleeping savages. Sentries stand guard. Tom-toms sound the dawn. The chorus wails as the witch doctor worships the sun. An orchestra crashes and a storm with electric lightning sends the frightened tribesmen cowering. After the storm, hunters clad in red, purple and orange fell a lion, the Dread of the Jungle. The tom-toms beat again as a human sacrifice is prepared. But at the last moment King Mumbra releases the maiden. But neither he nor his witch doctor can prevent the Portuguese traders from capturing his people...
...treatment by Dr. Tugwell, an editor of The New Republic (Island sugar planters last week filed suit against the sugar quota he had set for them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more than that the New Deal's doctors, medical and philosophical, may cause map-makers to tint U. S. possessions with the color hitherto traditionally assigned to Britain's colonies?a bright pink...
...where it is liable to swing too far in this direction. Policies are being adopted in Washington which should be forged on the anvil of national debate and the Republican party has the responsibility in seeing that this is accomplished. They allowed an admiration for individuality coupled with a dread of control and social legislation to destroy their chances for success in the early years of the depression. Desirable indications point to the fact that they are abandoning this attitude and trying to adopt a position of the minimum control consistent with the national welfare. It is a difficult position...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...