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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Masons descended on Hollywood in 1947, and Pamela found it such a "naively pure" town ("Peyton Place was squeamish by comparison") that she has felt compelled to educate it ever since. She has feuded with Columnist Hedda Hopper ("a dreadful person"), constantly popped off with suggestions such as harems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talker | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Aparajito (Edward Harrison) is Part Two of a trilogy, made in India by an amateur moviemaker (now turned professional) named Satyajit Ray. that promises to be one of the cinema's outstanding masterpieces. The trilogy is based on one of modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Roaring north out of the Pacific last week came the worst storm to hit Japan in 24 years. In twelve dreadful hours, Typhoon Ida swept clear up the northern half of Honshu, Japan's biggest and richest island. The torrential rains caused widespread floods and some 1,900 landslides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ida's Price | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Risky Claim. Lewis also noticed the psalms' attitude toward God's judgment of men. Christians tremble at the thought (or should); Judgment Day is "that day of wrath, that dreadful day." But the psalmists looked forward to it joyfully. The reason for the difference, says Lewis, is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lewis on the Psalms | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Thirty-five minutes after take-off at 4:05 a.m., Flight 607E radioed a routine report that it was about 100 miles out over the Atlantic. When a next report, due every 5° of longitude, did not come in, a "phase of uncertainty" was declared, during which all stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Riders to the Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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