Word: horridness
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Never one to hold his peace when he can tell it to the papers, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 54, called a press conference to refute all those horrid things his colleagues were saying about him. He particularly resented a Senate speech by Delaware's Republican John J. Williams, who scorched him for his whoop-de-do European junkets and squandering of federal funds. It was a matter of racial discrimination-because he was a Negro, said the injured Powell, forgetting for the nonce that he once claimed Cherokee-white ancestry. Williams, added Powell, bought...
...inside a skull. Flesh hangs from the skull in soggy clumps. Black bags hang from the eyes like evil growths. The nose is two wormy holes. The ragged lips reveal a clutter of dirty tusks. And over the ghastly object hangs a straggle of stringy hair that looks like horrid skinny legs and suggests that on top of the skull there may be something squatting...
...vertical shafts. The walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape for 15-25 minutes; then the cooling gases lose their pressure. With a horrid noise the roof falls and all the way to the surface. With a horrid noise the roof falls, and all the way to the surface the layers of shook-up material tumble down after it. As the LASL News, house organ of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, describes...
...understand how badly they had let the side down. When the council threatened to evict the families who refused to pay their rent, all 96 of the defaulters capitulated. "Everyone says the Mohammeds are clean," mused a tenant, "and we all know some whites are dirty." "It would be horrid not to say good morning," blurted her friend...
...necessary abbreviation that the Times Literary Supplement finds "horrid" because it smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...