Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many dentists have some such specialty as pulling teeth or straightening them. Washington Dentist Raymond Herndon, 36, specializes in jittery patients. More than half of the patients he treats are the kind that other dentists dread: alcoholics, "uncooperative" children, adults with neuroses or psychoses, people who begin to squirm at the sound of the drill...
Continental Western Europeans had-understandably-a dread of war talk and crisis which acted as a psychological magnifier on every sign from Washington that peace could be won without risk, sacrifice and a constant building up of the unity and strength of the free world...
...Prizewinner (1931), Warburg is a biochemist about whom anecdotes crystallize. In the '305 the Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...
...this is true, they're probably the only literary club in the world that over planned to walk through the streets of Salem carrying live goats and disembodied hands. That was last May 1--the dread "Walpurgisnacht"--when Hanging Hill was more bewitched than ever...
...theater ( The Skin of Our Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...