Word: hideous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...
...were the price of victory. I have always believed that the long view of man's history will show that his destiny on earth is progress toward the good life, even though that progress is based on sacrifices and sufferings which taken by themselves seem to constitute a hideous mélange of evils...
...machine tools. Later, under further pressure from Churchill, the government announced a ban on export to Iron Curtain countries of any machine tools the West may need for defense. Churchill also attacked Attlee for not making a clear statement of policy on the rearming of Germany. To close the "hideous gap" between Russian and Western military forces, Churchill demanded the creation of a European defense army, to include ten German and ten U.S. divisions...
...article on Daniel French's sculptures, I notice that the statue of John Harvard has been moved from its customary position in front of University Hall and placed in front of Memorial Hall, a hideous but charming edifice at the north end of Harvard Yard...
Responsible & Wrong. In the tones of a tired Cassandra, Churchill said: "The supreme peril is in Europe. We must try to close the hideous gap on the European front...