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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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To those of us sitting on the hill with General Craig, the terrible intensity of the aerial action could only indicate a fierce, personal desire of the Marine pilots to avenge the dreadful toll taken of their comrades on the ground. The pilots seemed unable to wait long enough to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE BATTLE OF NO NAME RIDGE | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

It takes nine tailors to make a man, says the old saw, and at least seven suits to make a well-dressed one, say the tailors. With clothes rationing dead for more than a year, London's Savile Row tailors last week issued a stern manifesto declaring that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One to Blow | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

The dreadful dropsy grows apace, Nor can the sufferer banish thirst, Unless the cause of the malady has first Departed from the veins.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Salt | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

A few minutes later Mrs. Grant got the dreadful news. Grant had been caught, had admitted that he had planned to blow up the plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third Suitcast | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Most of the sculptures selected by the Whitney were abstract concoctions of spikes, bumps, lumps, bars and bits of string, and most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Signs of Spring | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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