Word: dreadfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrorists, who had proclaimed an underground patri sarka (government of broken feet) in opposition to the Raj, terrorized and looted for 14 months. In the villages, their "courts" executed eight suspected informers, medievally mutilated another 74. Last week 1,500 Bombay police had finally shattered the reign of dread, arrested one of its principal leaders...
...Sided Plan. In the industrial north, the dread of the average man was deepest. It was no secret that in Milan, Genoa, Turin-the centers of leftist stirrings-Communists had large stores of arms and ammunition. It was an open secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads...
...week's end, Yomiuri Hochi, without using the dread word surrender, made their predicament still clearer to the Japanese people...
...food markets of "filthy Calcutta" display their uncovered wares near drains and open latrines, sprinkle them with unfiltered water. It is an open invitation to cholera, one of the dread diseases of the East...
From Stockholm to London, and then to Washington, the electric word flashed: Nazi authorities wanted to surrender all that was left of the German Army and Germany. But they wanted to surrender only to the Americans and the British, not to the dread Russians. Back went the answer: surrender to all or none...