Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarines surfaced along the Italian coast and shelled trains and factories. Bad news for Italians was the report that Senegalese soldiers of the French colonial armies were joining Eisenhower's command. In French West Africa were more than 50,000 of the ferocious, black warriors, whom the Italians dread...
...Yale football guard of the '90s, wheeled out the high-wheeled bike he had ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young's heart was no dread. To keep warm on a midwinter night in California she had a solution: chipmunk pants...
...grizzled, hard-bitten veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like...
...Worst rainy nite yet - didn't think I could stand that torture. Rain today-dread tonight...
...street meetings; Dr. Carlile rejoiced that thieves were attending.) To the day of his death he eschewed "luxuries such as slippers and cushions," never sat on a couch if he could avoid it, always worked on a high, uncomfortable stool, as he had a great dread of feeling comfortable...