Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were of the "not quite" variety-she was almost unfaithful to her architect husband, nearly left him, came close to killing herself...
...week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
...burnt their five-acre farm that represented two years of labor, killed the cow that represented all their wealth. Then when the Valley people were cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia...
...Roman Catholic Church the penalty of excommunication may be inflicted, according to jurisdiction, by nearly every prelate from Pope down to vicar general. A dread excommunication formula-which Anglicans once used -ends: "We deprive him . . . of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord. We separate him from the society of all Christians. . . . We declare him excommunicated and anathematized. . . . We deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment. . . . Fiat, fiat, fiat!" ("Let it be done, let it be done, let it be done...
...deadly rain that fell from the aircraft made all those whom it touched fly shrieking with pain. All those who drank poisoned water or ate infected food also succumbed in dread ful suffering. In tens of thousands the victims of Italian mustard gas fell...