Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horrid-Looking Wretch." No two campaigns have ever been exactly alike. They have been fought on such varied issues as Van Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor...
...Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really bare and the lips compressed...
...chief was serious, dark-eyed Theodor Rosebury,* now back at his old job as associate professor in the department of bacteriology at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. The book does for bacteriological warfare what the Smyth report did for atomic warfare. But nowhere in the book are the horrid words "bacterial warfare" even mentioned...
...little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast the hero's wedding into a sentimental colossity...
Another thing nobody relished was the idea of trying to slap controls, patterned on WPB and OPA, on some segments of the U.S. economy. Controls have a horrid sound in a free economy. Yet it became clear that the U.S. was going to have a painful time giving Europe long-haul help. Without controls, it might be impossible to extract adequate amounts of the things Europe needed most-e.g., grains and steel -from an economy in which these items were already none too plentiful...