Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
...Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll...
...orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down with every instrument in the orchestra simulating the horror of that dread word...
Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...