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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Read last week by Russell, under the glare of television lights in London's Caxton Hall, it said: "We are speaking on this occasion not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings ... The world is full of conflicts, and, overshadowing all minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Biological Species | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

As Kastner and his friends pondered this dreadful bargain, the hostages in the case-Hungary's million-odd Jews-were rounded up at the rate of 12,000 a day and herded off to "labor camps" to wait their fate. The bargain was never consummated. Kastner's contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: On Trial | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Now we are prone to consider such mutual responsibilities as savage and barbaric. But what have we substituted? Perhaps we have a longing for it. Maybe delinquency stems from just exactly this. The kids, not finding it at home and apparently needing it, build gangs to which they give their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Sir: . . . The maidenly squeals of the U.S. regarding Sweden's sex habits are most unbecoming. In a land where that national substitute for royalty-The Hollywood Crowd -has made a game of sex and a mockery of marriage; in a land where the vitality, or much of it, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Before Pallas Athene sprang full-armored from his brow, Zeus had a dreadful headache. The U.S. Army had worse headaches getting the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which adopted Pallas Athene as its symbol, dressed and going. But it was worth it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Best Soldiers | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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