Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to be the embodiment of youth's beauty and innocence. Artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) was inspired by him to paint his masterpiece. But even as the finished portrait of Dorian stood drying, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) infected the young man's mind with the dread of losing his youth and with the amoral desire to seek experience for its own sake...
...distant cannonading grew louder, drew nearer. Over the gaunt men hung the dread that the enemy, in fury, might yet decide to finish them off. Caught between the lines, they might even be wiped out by U.S. artillery or by bombers. Even if MacArthur knew they were there, how could he effect their rescue...
Armless and legless young soldiers, learning to use artificial limbs at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, dread going into the streets. One soldier told the New York Times, "We meet three kinds of people. Some are intelligent enough not to stare and ask questions. Some are well meaning and want to do something, but they always say the wrong thing. And then there are the long-nosed gossips who ask us fool questions and try to pry." The veterans asked the U.S. to help them back into a normal existence by observing two rules: 1) don't stare...
...reasons why troops found it hard to be tough were well put by the late C. E. Montague, British essayist, who wrote of the Allied occupation after World War I: "How can you hate the small boy who stands at the farm door visibly torn between dread of the invader and deep delight in all soldiers as soldiers? ... It is hopelessly bad for your Byronic hates if you sit through whole winter evenings in the abhorred foe's kitchen and the abhorred foe grants you the uncovenanted mercy of hot coffee and discusses without rancor the relative daily yields...
...great U.S. wheat belt, farmers listen to "Stake" almost as anxiously as to the weather man. Last week Professor Elvin C. Stakman, famed University of Minnesota plant pathologist, gave them something to be anxious about. "No. 56," the dread wheat rust, is rising to epidemic proportions. Stake and his boys were making some laboratory progress against it; they were sure they would eventually master No. 56, as they had mastered many another disease. But the outbreak once more confirmed a Stakman theory: the news on the fungus front is always...