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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adolf Hitler called them the "Order of Good Blood," and gave them for a symbol a grinning death's-head. In ten dreadful years, they butchered millions, making good their master's boast that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Black Coats | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

KENYA'S white farmers, many of them impoverished aristocrats and others ex-Indian army colonels and majors, live in lonely gimcrack farmsteads dotted about the exclusive White Highlands.They drink expensive wines and dine off good china, yet few have telephones; farmhouses are miles apart and roads are dreadful. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Panga War | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Depression. Almost all his major speeches included sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adlai's Five Days | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

"I thought that I knew of every conceivable form of wickedness," said a judge to a London jury in summing up a libel case in 1934. "I thought that everything which was vicious and bad had been produced at one time or another before me. I have learned in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

At a Harvard Club lunch in Los Angeles MGM's Dore Schary decided to look on the bright side of the movie-TV battle: "Television actually is having a salutary effect on films. It is eliminating our potboilers, dreadful melodramas and other junk. In fact, television is inheriting most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Silver Lining | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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