Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists. No tool has been left unused, from woolly-minded American officials to former Goebbels hirelings and Nazi youth leaders. Occasionally Soviet organization has not been equal to its task, as when the collapse of Russian Army discipline in the moment of victory resulted in a vast, hideous carnival of raping and looting. But the long objective, of transforming Germany into a decisive westward extension of the Soviet system, has never been changed for an instant...
...spurious theory, still popular unfortunately, tries to explain that hideous penchant of ours for collecting things as nothing but a legitimate inheritance from some of our more squirrel-like ancestors. The bare truth of the matter is that collecting is a form of escapism. It affords the harried citizens of the modern rational world an opportunity to give way occasionally to outbursts of insanity without incurring any considerable danger of losing face...
...Balkans were neither romantic nor obscure nor confusing. The situation last week was hideous, crystal-clear and simple. The Balkans formed a sharply contoured pattern of forces representing all that was worst in postwar Europe...
...Like the Inspired Tinker, Anglican Convert Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce) writes of the trials and troubles of man's soul in a sinful world; to dramatize his theology he peoples his stories with a menagerie of sprites, devils, and fabulous monsters. Lewis' latest: That Hideous Strength (Macmillan, $3), third volume of a trilogy* begun in 1943. It is loaded with enough spiritual wisdom for a dozen sermons...
...night Monica's governess happened to peep into the darkened nursery. She stifled a scream and fainted dead away. Something "disjointed, hoppety, hideous" was stalking across Monica...