Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind all the issues of this war lies a deeper question, now posed to the world. Which do you choose-the free spirit of man and the moral idealism that has shaped the values and ideas of our civilization, or this horrid substitute, this foul obsession now resuscitated from the underworld of the past...
Purity has reared its ugly head at Radcliffe. Although the horrid event took place last spring, it was only last night that the complete story came to light...
...trying hard to quench the fever of revolt which was rising ever higher in France. Last week trains loaded with Nazi troops and materiel were derailed, Nazi soldiers were assassinated. To seething, rebellious Paris, Adolf Hitler sent his chief executioner, lean, cold Reinhard Heydrich, whose name has become a horrid byword wherever hostages' eyes are bandaged and their arms bound...
...group or clique is losing this war, it's the women, poor dears. Here they are, losing all their most precious possessions, the men, to this horrid, stupid old war. Then when the war is over it looks as though there'll be so many more of their sex left than the other that the United States will have to go over to polygamy. Imagine having to share Cary Grant with another cat! My dear, it's horrendous...
...swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting it completely...