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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, another philosophic piece, was touched only by tedium. The setting is a desolate swamp where for eternity two hoboes talk about how bored they are. They are waiting, as you might suspect, for Godot, a nobleman who will bring salvation from their misery. During...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Circling the Circus | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

Last year Ann added to a spiritual crisis in Joe's life. Like most Jackson Countians, the adults in Joe's family have belonged to the Church of Christ* since Civil War days. Now it was time for Joe to make his decision about entering the church, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

One intriguing fact that might give Ehrenburg trouble all over again: the book's U.S. publisher is Chicago's Henry Regnery, a man of marked anti-Soviet opinions-exactly the sort Ehrenburg means when he talks about imperialist hyenas. What is more, Regnery commissioned Fellow Hyena Russell Kirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Still Cold Inside | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Ho promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Nehru on the Rubicon | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

The long suspense was terrific. As Hurricane Ione whirled across the tepid ocean between Puerto Rico and the Carolinas, she was billed as "a very dangerous hurriane" with a bright blue central eye surrounded by dreadful winds.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hurricane's Way | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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