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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the Velikovsky account, Venus was once a monstrous comet. About 1500 B.C., it swept in from space surrounded by a retinue of meteors. On its first pass, it missed the earth by a comet's eyelash, showering the surface with "stones from the sky." Dreadful things happened, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus on the Loose | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

For a while, Lavern Roach seemed to be a fighter who knew when to quit. A husky, young ex-marine and Ring magazine's Rookie-of-the-Year in 1947, he had learned a dreadful lesson when he climbed into the ring against the late ex-Middleweight Champion Marcel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten & Out | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

The Nightmare. Stunned by the dreadful roar of the collision, Mrs. Evelyn Mc-Tootle, proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Late Train Home | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

It was the old, old story-the peace offensive to throw the Western world off its guard, cynical promises made to be broken, the indignant walkout when the negotiations got down to specifics. Or was it? Without any confidence at all that the U.S.S.R. could be trusted on anything, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Kremlin Is Willing | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Caught in the outward rush of air, Harris shot out through the door into the night with arms uplifted, still holding the blanket. While he fell-for about 50 leisurely, dreadful seconds-to his death, the airliner rumbled on, soon landed at New York's International Airport.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Man Missing | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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