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...closed his shop for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In the last fortnight a handful of Jews in the German district of Yorkville had reported defacement of their store windows. And week ago the Jewish owners of a German cinema in the same section had found four dread swastikas scratched in their box-office windows...
...September, the dread typhoon season. The late rice was in flower. The typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
...ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room. KGYO. KGYO 20 miles south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke...
...naked, sleeping savages. Sentries stand guard. Tom-toms sound the dawn. The chorus wails as the witch doctor worships the sun. An orchestra crashes and a storm with electric lightning sends the frightened tribesmen cowering. After the storm, hunters clad in red, purple and orange fell a lion, the Dread of the Jungle. The tom-toms beat again as a human sacrifice is prepared. But at the last moment King Mumbra releases the maiden. But neither he nor his witch doctor can prevent the Portuguese traders from capturing his people...
...treatment by Dr. Tugwell, an editor of The New Republic (Island sugar planters last week filed suit against the sugar quota he had set for them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more than that the New Deal's doctors, medical and philosophical, may cause map-makers to tint U. S. possessions with the color hitherto traditionally assigned to Britain's colonies?a bright pink...