Word: horridness
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...attitude toward the proprieties. Respectable ladies of Madrid see that their evening gowns are cut high in back as well as in front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
...meeting will attempt to discover "how to make our cities nice to look at and a joy to live in," Mary Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, assistant professor of City Planning, said yesterday. "Some of our American cities are pretty horrid," she observed...
...really a princess, danced by pretty Svetlana Beriosova), and the girls went into low-pressure love rites. The Russian fairy tale plot darkened further-got so dark, in fact, that only the program notes could make it almost clear. A gang of leaping fiends, Tartars and scimitarists introduced a horrid wizard (mimed by Frederick Ashton), but the Firebird returned and forced the whole evil crew to dance on and on to exhaustion. Then the hunter smashed the giant egg that contained the wizard's soul and married the beautiful princess. Curtain...
...Economic and Social Council committee on forced labor sent out a questionnaire urging all member nations to report on the extent of slavery in their territories. Loftily denying the existence of such a horrid thing, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia never answered the questionnaire. Anti-Slaver La Graviére hopes his own nation will put the problem before the U.N. General Assembly...
Shocked almost beyond words, I have just finished reading your April 25 article "Sin & Sweden." Those horrid, lascivious Swedes! LEONARD M. FRIEDMAN Riverdale...