Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awareness of rodent cycles also helps prevent diseases among human beings. In Norway, for example, lemming invasions are accompanied by outbreaks of "lemming fever"-a form of tularemia. Vole outbreaks in India stimulate the dread bubonic plague; in Central Europe, food poisoning ("ptomaine poisoning"); in Africa, a fever of men and sheep...
...bellows of slaughtered cows have almost ceased in North Carolina, and Tarheel dairymen have turned their curses elsewhere. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that North Carolina is the first State to conquer dread Bang's disease, contagious abortion of cows, which has cost U.S. cattle and dairy industries some $50,000,000 a year in aborted calves and milk losses...
...everybody wants to go somewhere for the Fourth of July weekend, no railroadman dares to think of the mess. And they all dread the effect on their future business, since it would underline the popular misconception that the roads cannot handle their normal passenger load on top of the gargantuan troop movements (2,500,000 troops in sleepers alone in five months) they have to handle first...
Advanced practice includes an hour of night flying and a little instrument flying. But there can be no practice in what glider pilots dread, even the most experienced -bad weather. For there is no substitute for a motor in escaping a storm. A student's last week of practice is devoted to troop carriers...
Future. But the satisfaction was not mere vindictiveness. It was partly an awakening to the dread possibilities of air warfare. This kind of thing, if it were sustained and even increased, was changing the war. It might even...