Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt the clutches of the Porra, who had languished in slimy jails or knew that the Porra had murdered a friend or relative, started a wild manhunt through the streets of Havana to slay and trample every Porrista they could catch. Frenzy grew maddest when Colonel Antonio Jiminez, dread Chief of the Porra, was sighted on the Prado. "There's Jiminez! It's Jiminez, the Porrista! Kill...
Worker") on a hand press which was frequently moved from hideaway to hideaway, Editor & Publisher Pilsudski was arrested and placed in the dread "Pavilion X" of the Warsaw Citadel. Item: 1901, unable to escape from "Pavilion X," Prisoner Pilsudski brilliantly feigned madness and was transferred to St. Nicholas Hospital...
...grandchildren of Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, brother of the 27th President of the U. S., were quietly shipped off to Europe on the S. S. Majestic because the family was in constant dread of snatchers...
...tainted Crown Prince, deathly pale, spindle-shanked and likely to bleed to death from the dread disease hemophilia, supplied Spanish Republicans with one of their best reasons for ousting the Royal House (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) Last week sentimental Cuban matrons murmured that love can cure and conquer all. One thing was certain. Spain's one-time Crown Prince Alfonso no longer looks tainted. From 92 Ib. his weight has climbed to 136-since the day twelve months ago when into the Swiss sanatorium where he was lying came a ripe-lipped, radiant Cuban patient, Senorita Edelmira...
...fact, I dread it. I'm not so sure I'll do it. When I get out there I may have somebody else go ahead...