Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such implication was intended or contained in the protest issued by myself and my colleagues. We denounced the use of the bomb under whatsoever circumstances as a hideous atrocity and an outrage upon every principle of ethics and religion. Our nation stands disgraced before the world as the perpetrator of this monstrous crime...
...dynamitic report from former U.S. Immigration Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, whom he had sent to the Continent last June to investigate the fate of displaced refugees, particularly Jews. Harrison's report pulled no punches. He charged that displaced Jews are being held in unsanitary, barbed-wire camps, wearing hideous concentration-camp garb or German SS uniforms, with nothing being done for them by way of rehabilitation. Their guards are U.S. troops...
...hundreds of individuals. Each voice, in the inflection of its own part of the world and in the jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton...
...Beautiful. The glittering Staatsoper on the Ringstrasse, which circles the inner city, had been gutted. The walls of Saint Stephen's stood gaunt and beautiful. The interior was gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where the big stores, shops...
...fight them?" she asked Daniell. "Why must you let them come? ... It is hideous what you are doing...