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The Nightmare. Stunned by the dreadful roar of the collision, Mrs. Evelyn Mc-Tootle, proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in...
Caught in the outward rush of air, Harris shot out through the door into the night with arms uplifted, still holding the blanket. While he fell-for about 50 leisurely, dreadful seconds-to his death, the airliner rumbled on, soon landed at New York's International Airport.
"I have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week...
The London Daily Worker played true to form. "[Churchill's] personal history," it said, "is considered [by TIME] as summing up 'the dreadful and wonderful years' . . . We can at least agree in associating the word dreadful with Mr. Churchill's story." The News Chronicle's...
At that point, the more courageous broke with the party. In The God that Failed, six of them tell the stories of their Communist pilgrimage, and the return trip. It is as goodly a company of such pilgrims as has yet been collected in one volume: there are Novelists Arthur...