Word: horridness
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...little tossing trawlers in the raw North Sea, who can scarcely defend themselves with rifles when Nazi bombers dive at them from the storm scud, Germany's air war on British shipping is a very real and horrid thing. Machine-gun fire sweeps the deck, bombs blow the ship apart, men are hurled mangled and stunned into the combers, the ship goes down leaving survivors to flounder and gasp and freeze until help comes, if it does...
...Last week Congressmen in audible numbers asked each other out loud why they had recently voted so much, why they were requested to vote so much more for National Defense. In good partisan tradition, many of the doubters were Republicans, who grumbled less about preparedness than about the horrid prospect of preparedness taxes in an election year. But the queries came fast and loud enough to insure that capable, meticulous Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, the Army's smart, hardbitten Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and their subordinates must give a clearer definition of what they...
Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...
...paper's name in which its more-or-less reverent editors insert (instead of the weather forecast or NIGHT EDITION ***** ) thoughts for the day, mots on the news, quotations from the philosophers. During the War, L'Oeuvre's, editors became so clever at making horrid cracks at the Government through outwardly innocent references to the weather or some theatrical success that Anastasie (the Censorship) cracked down. Last week Paris oldsters read a manchette that set them to reminiscing about the great battles between Anastasie and L'Oeuvre. With the Censorship again slashing through the French press...
...anti-Semitic delegate jumped up and shouted, "Who sent for him? What does he represent? Whom does this Jew represent?" A U. S. newspaper correspondent slapped the delegate's mouth. Einstein was so angry at this display of race prejudice that he went back to his hotel, made horrid sounds on his violin until his feelings were soothed...