Word: dreadfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Will the coming of spring bring a great offensive on the Western Front?" Last week, as the first third of the dread month of March slipped away, and the curtain was poised for a fall on the whole northern theatre of the war, this question was asked and answered by the man whose own opinion was more likely than any other outsider's to influence High Commands and War Offices-Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart...
...adultery, and has specifically defended in his writings sexual relations "as a purely private matter which does not concern the state or the neighbors." What is to become of us, with this "propagandist against morality" on the loose, fumed the New York divine, lifting his hands in palsied dread...
Policeman Hoover has never been known to have had any woman-affair in New York City. A bachelor, he is seldom seen without a male companion, most frequently solemn-faced Clyde Tolson, his assistant. His reason: his dread that someone, some day, somewhere, will plant a naked woman in his path, try to frame...
...most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life or destruction, oppositions of a mother, a father, a daughter, come to a head in a conflict of almost mythical cruelty and stature, described with meticulous and searching dread...