Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airplane designers are confident that many jet airliners will be flying some day, but they dread the reception they will get from people living near airports. The noise of four or six big jet engines has to be heard to be believed. If not reduced in some way, the noise will drive strong men to desperation for miles around the runways...
...across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread word "tornado," but they told key men about their hunch that a tornado was coming. Tinker Field got a forecast of an 80-m.p.h. wind, which ensured all possible precautions. Less than seven hours after the warning, the "pattern" delivered the goods: a tornado that ripped right across Tinker Field...
...modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...
...been in the government of England since the Poor Law was enacted. They built country houses in the best parts of England, and they built workhouses in the worst parts. Youngsters who have come of age since the war have no idea what the workhouses were like, of the dread people felt that they would one day wind up in one. I am proud to have been the minister responsible for getting rid of the workhouses...
Belgian brains and Bantu muscle have thrust back the forest and checked the dread diseases (yaws, sleeping sickness, malaria) which sapped the Bantu's strength. In some areas, the Congo's infant-mortality rate is down to 60 per 1,000-better than Italy's figure. More than 1,000,000 children attend primary and secondary schools-40% of the school-age population (compared with less than 10% in the French empire...