Word: horridness
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...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...
...newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
This is a little bewildering to me. We're reading those horrid books, but are they more horrid than the world where people are killing each other? In the U. S. where we race around in cars butchering humans...