Word: dreadfulness
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...bear a man's part in another if it comes. We fear war, not only as you may very properly fear it--with the shrinking of the flesh which we know from experience, and you only from Imagination--but with that greater dread which you will come to know when you, in turn, have sons...
With the determination of the Allies to purge Scandinavia of the German terror clearly demonstrated, Sweden was perhaps nearer war, but less in dread of it. By waiting she had probably served Norway as well as herself better than by going in too soon. And having seen what happened to the Norse and the Danes will make her a better fighter if war does come. For even to the war-shunning Swedes, death is better than vassalage...
...cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth and lavish welcome and illusion, only to meet again with the dark struggle, poverty, gloom, dread and want...
There are practically no passengers either, and no news except Mr. Kennedy's dread prognostications which were news...
...plain that Sweden would not fight side by side with anybody against Germany, unless Germany forced her to do so. Sweden's cultural and economic ties with Germany are too strong for political differences to break, and she is bound even closer to Germany by her mortal dread of Russia...