Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kill him and so mercifully end his suffering. He suggested that she should shoot him through the mouth. At first she refused and then, one night, "Suddenly I felt I must obey," she said in a soft, low voice that sounded throughout the court with dread distinctness. Her lover had said to her: "When you realize that all hope is gone, then for pity's sake save me unnecessary suffering. Shoot me in the mouth; that's the best place." She took a pistol, held the muzzle close to her lover's lips, turned away her head, fired...
...came as a relief to the people on both sides of the Rhine that both Governments agreed, in the event of a final rupture of the treaty negotiations, that there would be no dread tariff war. France made known that her general tariff rates (for all countries not benefiting by a most favored nation treaty) would apply to German goods. Germany declared that her single tariff for all countries would be applied to French goods...
...trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal...
...life in this week's "Collier". There is a story of a balky uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
Long ago, in the days of Philip of Macedon, when whole armies hurled themselves against the dread Macedonian phalanx, Macedonia was a great and independent country. Today, Macedonia is merely a geographical expression; its territories are divided principally between Yugoslavia and Greece...