Word: hideous
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...they show "Isherwood" through the years discarding one pose after another, like a man trying on dressing gowns. At 23, the hero is a rather insensitive Sensitive Young Author. Invited to visit a "cousin" named Lancaster who is a shipping executive in Hamburg, the young man has a perfectly hideous time. His notion of himself as Jack the Philistine Killer falls comically to pieces when he finds himself fascinated by Lancaster's boundless, vulgar energy...
...distributed as Kevadon. Not a barbiturate, thalidomide quickly induces sleep and seldom leaves a hangover. It appears virtually impossible to commit suicide with it; 188 people are known to have tried and failed. But on a statistical basis, it stands accused of causing many hideous malformations in babies born to mothers who took the drug in the sixth to eighth week of pregnancy...
...booms, appliance booms. Cities throb with the pound of pile drivers pushing new office buildings and apartments skyward. Tokyo's streets -most of them no more than lanes-resound with the honking of 700,000 cars, trucks and motorcycles, v. 59,000 before the war; traffic jams are hideous, and the death rate from traffic accidents the highest in the world. So many people pack stores, subways and amusement centers that one entrepreneur sells a "slippery coat" of tough synthetic fiber to make it easier to slither through crowds...
...deepest layers to the inner parts of the eye. IDU sometimes could not cure the disease, but still it could be made to help. In a herpes-infected eye, cortisone (which has sometimes been mistakenly tried because it is valuable in many other eye afflictions) often does swift and hideous damage by increasing inflammation. Dr. Kaufman found that a combination of IDU and cortisone in these severe cases promoted healing of the inner part of the eye and minimized damage...
World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of Europe. It was the innocent, hideous war that ushered in the modern age. The bloody pageant had been in rehearsal for years. Never before had so many nations so thoroughly plotted the destruction of their enemies. When the fighting finally began, in the long, hot summer of 1914, the great armies moved eagerly onstage to take up their long-assigned positions. In The Guns of August, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman (The Zimmermann Telegram) tells how, in the very first month...