Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they took refuge in riverside cabins, the night was made hideous by the "howls, wails and shrieks" of the Yukon's "coal-eyed, shark-faced shrews"-three-inch rodents which eagerly devoured one another. Natives told the appalled young couple about the man who had died in his cabin and not been found for seven months. Rescuers who lifted his body found it "as light as ashes. The shrews had gone in from the cheeks and down inside, hollowing...
...like Don Whitehead and Clark Lee [I.N.S.], who had been through the mill so long and so boldly, began to get nerves. And frankly I was the worst of the lot, and continued to be. I began having terrible periods of depression and often would dream hideous dreams about it. All the time fear lay blackly deep upon your consciousness. It bore down on your heart like an all-consuming weight. People would talk to you, and you wouldn't hear what they were saying...
...Italy, they were military, not political. ("It may be that after the fall of Mussolini our action might have been more swift or audacious.") For the land of Italy he had a traveled Briton's feeling: ". . . this beautiful country suffering the worst horrors of war . . . with the hideous prospect of a red-hot rake of battle lines being drawn from sea to sea right up the whole length of the peninsula...
Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...
...London Daily Express dropped a few sentimental tears last fortnight over the "muddy scar" that had been made on the grounds by bulldozers and steam shovels, "advancing like a serpent of destruction, leaving a hideous trail. ..." The Ministry of Works and Planning was not touched. Coldly, it said that in times like these, the main thing was to get the coal. They were getting it, at the rate of 25,000 tons a week...