Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a heartening number and variety of people dared to look directly at the atom's horrid glare. Rose-tinted goggles were still preferred, but at least the world was no longer hiding its head in the atomized dirt of New Mexico and Hiroshima...
...doctors of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were having more than their share of trouble. Young Joseph Lister, disciple of France's Louis Pasteur, was not only filling their ears with chatter about invisible somethings called "germs," he was also filling their stately hospital with the horrid stench of carbolic acid-a so-called "antiseptic," used hitherto for cleansing the Glasgow sewers...
Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had put in a busy day. They had inspected the horrid concentration camp at Ohrdruf, visited the salt mine with its hoard of gold and art, traveled several hundred miles by plane and jeep. When they returned to General Patton's headquarters they were tired-and a little sick from the things they had seen at Ohrdruf. They dined, then sat in a big, sparsely furnished room, talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots...
...horrid word censorship was hardly mentioned. Small, grey Edward M. Curran, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, simply called up Look Magazine's distributors, said that he found the March 20 issue offensive, wanted all copies "voluntarily" removed from Washington newsstands. While the subject was being batted back & forth between Look's lawyers and distributors, the word got out. The public quickly gobbled up all copies. Look promised to send no more...
Hangover Square (20th Century-Fox) is the excitingly horrid story of a large, bewildered composer named George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) who overworks himself into fits of amnesia. A Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right...