Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danziger Vorposten wrote with remarkable frankness: "It is stupid and even criminal to put into words what people are thinking in every house, tramway and street." Many Germans are weary, have the jitters. But their sense of discipline and their driving dread of defeat largely offset their fatigue...
...children never smile. Their dread of cold is so great that, when brought into warm rooms, they fight desperately for the spot nearest the fire. They draw their heads into their coat collars, their hands into their sleeves. There they sit silently for hours. Music and the laughter of others irritate them. Someone asks a little girl why she is so silent. She answers: "Why do you smile?" From London last week came such reports of what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused...
...retired U.S. Chief of Staff talked to reporters on his 79th birthday. General Peyton C. March's pointed goat-beard had gone grey; but his eyes were sharp and blue as ever, his tongue still as acid as in 1918, when even the dread "March smile" was enough to burn holes in his subordinates. During World War I, General March was the superior officer and most watchful critic of the A.E.F.'s General John J. Pershing...
Will Opal marry Joe, or will the dead hand of the past reach out to prevent the match? War or no war, such dread questions-dear to the hearts of soap-opera buffs-remained the favorite daytime stimulant of 35% of U.S. radio's listeners...
German morale shows no sign of crumbling. But the enemy undergoes an ordeal, too. Letters left behind tell of the terrible American artillery fire, the dread of cold steel, the misery of rain. Wrote one Nazi: "He who knows Italy learns to love Russia...