Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious Frustration. Here I reach the point I dread, where the objection is raised: of course, politics will never save Europe. Who ever thought it would? Basically, the problem is spiritual. How about the moral reinvigoration of Europe by religion? Well, that is what I have been looking for over here, and there isn't any. That statement could be made more diplomatically. . . . But it is true as it stands...
...possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time has the bomb (say 1950), then no mind can imagine to horrors that will follow...
...dread Dred Scott decision...
...epidemic of the dread polar paralysis...
Speed makes the difference-a higher order of speed. Many military planes can plunge in a power dive, faster & faster until the needle of the airspeed indicator creeps close to the dread red mark of "compressibility." At this critical speed, the airstream, accelerated by crowding over the curved surfaces, reaches at certain spots the speed of sound.† Then a standing sound wave may form on the wing or tail, roaring and hammering, perhaps chewing holes in the plane's skin or freezing the controls...