Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stouthearted Britons might well cry, with Dr. Johnson, "Old England is lost!" From London last week came dread tidings of a changing land: tj In a report deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
...counterattack Stalin had two purposes: 1) to play upon every nation's dread of war; and 2) to promote the Soviet hierarchy's current theme song to the Russians: that they must work all the harder to meet the renewed threat of capitalistic encirclement. He said that Churchill had sounded "a call to war with the Soviet Union," and bitterly pointed out that this "firebrand" had "raised the alarm and organized" the 1918-20 Allied invasion of the fledgling Soviet state, "with the aim of turning back the wheel of history." But "history turned out to be stronger...
...would be criminal madness to cast [the secret of atomic power] adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ... I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and some Communist or neo-Fascist state monopolized . . . these dread agents. The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. . . . Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization," the secret could be shared...
...another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...
...counters to measure radioactivity, will roar across the lagoon, 40 feet above the water. If they report and if their report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated...