Word: hideous
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...Press had to report a happening in the coalfields near Sharon, Pa. From the stereotyped "slayer" headline slapped on in the office, from the position given the item on the Press' pink-page, it was difficult to tell whether Editor J. Y. Chidester of the Press appreciated how hideous an event had actually taken-place or with what powerful, self-controlled simplicity the correspondent had done his duty when he wrote the following...
...guards ran through the circle of prisoners and separated the two men who were fighting. William Reid was panting and furious. "Red" Moran, seriously wounded, looked at the men around him with the amazed, pitiful expression of a man who has just learned a hideous secret. He lifted his hand and pointed at William Reid. "He stabbed me," Thomas Moran whispered to the guard...
...famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings of the imprisoned first-mate...
...downfall of a student who is not clear on the place of residence of the Hittites may be as inconsequential, and far funnier, than the death of the Jabberwock, to the motionless figures bent over the examination tables the matter appears in a more sinister light. Such joviality seems hideous in its forebodings...
Afterward, in New York, Claire Ambler ended an attenuated affair and faced the hideous realization that she had lived for 25 years without getting married. Not daring to endure alone the depressing silence that followed this thunderclap of thought, Claire telephoned the swain to whom she had last addressed farewells. When, with him, she was suffering the ceremony of marriage, a churchful of people at her back, Claire achieved at last an emotion which was untheatrical as well as genuine. "She was uplifted with the happiness of a great reassurance; once more she knew that she had forgotten herself...