Word: horridness
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...could feel just what horrid thoughts my friend was thinking. So in order to relieve his anxiety, I went on to say: 'My great ambition on Jan. 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan...
Thus, like the airplane, chemicals emerged from the War as a major military instrument. With the post-War development of fast, long-range bombing planes, the prospect of aero-gas attack on cities has become a horrid spectre held up to palpitating civilians by excited publicists. Military experts in chemical warfare cry out to a man that this spectre has been grossly exaggerated...
Result of this was that there was nothing, either in Japan or in the U. S., to prevent the trickle of cheap Japanese cottons from becoming a horrid flood...
After each major act of Joseph Stalin's regime, a vast cheering throng swells into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences...
...past six years the ratio of A & P's private brands to other merchandise on A & P shelves has increased immeasurably. If A & P decided to discredit national brands as a preliminary to making everything it sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these...