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It was a ghastly crime.
Today we should be looking to the future, conscious of the end of a ghastly period in the history of that part of the world.
We say resolutely that such ghastly crimes shall be visited with appropriate punishment, not in the spirit of revenge but in the spirit of justice.
Then it grew stronger through one ghastly winter after another, through repeated and heartbreaking postponements of the hope of liberty and indeed of life itself.
The whole of this ghastly campaign is referred to as an incident.
The alternative seems to be a sort of ghastly combination of dumping and tariffs on all sides.
Nationalised industries and so-called state enterprises are still the most ghastly and still give the worst service.
There is nothing to be proud about in those ghastly cemeteries which were the result of the last war.
Big towns have been ghastly models of slums, industrial de- velopment, housing, roads and railways—all thrown together in an unplanned tangle.
