Word: dreadfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a complex, of course, does not explain the act of murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...
...Pastor Martin Niemoller has been transferred from the dread Sachsenhausen concentration camp to some place of detention in Bavaria "where he is much better off," according to a message smuggled past the German censor last week. The heroic leader of Lutheran resistance to Hitler has been held by the Gestapo since...
Letter. The London Sunday Times published a letter which George Braikenridge of Bristol wrote to an American business firm: "The so-long-threatened invasion of this country has not yet been attempted, but we expect that in a few days it will be and there seems to be no dread here about it; the whole Nation seems confident. ..." Date of the letter: March...
...does the moral superiority which makes the people of the democracies think of themselves as the children of light, constantly result in doubt, skepticism, confusion, unsureness about objectives, diffusion of effort, widespread paralysis of the will to act, dread of defeat, while the children of totalitarian darkness constantly assert an immoral superiority which they translate into initiative, decision, unity of purpose, invincible organization, victory in diplomacy, espionage...
...dread are the Willies...