Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent...
...Vienna last week, as Nazis took possession of the world's greatest establishment for medical teaching-the University of Vienna's medical school (300 professors & lecturers), the General Hospital (over 2,000 beds), the polyclinic and nine other hospitals-a dread epidemic struck down many a great physician. Reported as suicides were...
...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...dimly lighted corridor of an out of the way stack of Widener Library. He had been there for several weeks, now, slaving over what he hoped would some day turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain of youth once sought by Ponce de Leon...
Always hanging over His Majesty's head has been the dread of his next broadcast. Last week he took the short, courageous way out, speaking clearly-with long halts between his accurately pronounced words-to his 493,370,000 subjects...