Word: hideously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the trouble started. Students in the capital city of La Paz held a huge open-air demonstration against the Siles-Kundt regime. General Kundt met this in the only way he knew. Police blocked every exit from the square, machine guns wheeled into position. Under their hideous rattle 100 screaming boys fell never to rise again. As many more were wounded. The Government did its best to suppress news of the riot but Bolivians had seen the bodies in the streets. The country was aroused. General Kundt posted loyal troops on the hills above the capital, threatened...
...condemnation until the students as a community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...painter, a goldsmith; that his work will be a striving for the beautiful is taken for granted. But charming though it be, Bali is no saccharine Utopia, monotonous with felicity. As in other tropic countries, milk and honey come in cans. There women grow old and shrink to hideous phantoms of themselves...
...Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
Last week Pilot Richardson returned. The smoke over Santa Maria was grey and ominous. For miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept...