Word: dreadfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Losing home-grown teeth and getting store ones is distressing to sensitive people. They chiefly dread 1 ) encountering friends and business associates while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself...
...weight to his fantastic diagnosis, "Doctor" Powers quoted medical textbooks, cited cases of other athletes who had been "struck down in the dark by the dread 'polio' germ." He dressed up his four-column story with a full-bosomed photograph of Diver Georgia Coleman (stricken with infantile paralysis three years ago), pathetic pictures of onetime Iron Man Gehrig "before and after," and a lurid drawing of "the Yanks" smitten by a terrifying plague...
...destruction: Germany suspended all non-military traffic, even the mails, in northwestern France and western Belgium and Holland, "sealed" those areas-just as she had done along her western border just before the terrible Whitsuntide Blitzkrieging into The Lowlands. Britons who had been waiting for "It" to begin, the dread Battle of Britain, had no longer to wait...
Argentina. Wariest of all is balky, recalcitrant Argentina, the bad boy of Pan-Americanism. Though linked by cultural and historical ties to its Yanqui neighbor to the north, Argentina would rather manage the southern theatre itself, has a dread of U. S. dominance...
...prizes (see below). Much of Africa was about to change hands; much of the rest was being fought over (see p. 25). South America shook with totalitarian scares (see p. 32). The U. S. was far from safe (see p. 14). As far as the sun courses, chaos or dread uncertainty reigned. The British Empire, bastion of things-as-they-have-been since the days of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, stood tottering...