Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week to many a U. S. citizen he was a bum.* To a pack of U. S. newspaper pundits, he was worse than that: they thought they saw in his second Isolationist speech (TIME, Oct. 23) the spoor of a Nazi fox. Dorothy Thompson and Walter Lippmann read dread things between the naïve Lindbergh lines. Heywood Broun thought the speech "one of the most militaristic" ever made by an American. To Columnist Hugh S. Johnson he was "Poor Lindy" who had "stepped from his hero's niche...
...social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism, irresponsible Bohemianism-for innumerable heresies whose very names sound weird in a democracy, but which operate to insure unquestioned obedience from members. These dread papers are pondered by Comrade Dirba in his office on the ninth floor of Party headquarters on 13th Street, Manhattan. His practice is generally to telephone the accused, usually around midnight, and say in a hollow voice, "Comrade, I would like...
WASHINGTON--Fred Beal, former Communist party organizer now serving a North Carolina state prison term, today urged the House committee on un-American activities to guard its witnesses against reprisals by party members and the dread. OGPU, Soviet Russian Secret police agency...
Doctors have battled epidemics of infantile paralysis for 50 years, but they still know practically nothing about the cause & cure of that dread disease. In trying to come to grips with poliomyelitis, they still clutch at brilliant, fantastic-sounding clues hit on from time to time by hard-working bacteriologists. Last week, at the Manhattan meeting of the International Congress for Microbiology, two new clues turned...
...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...