Word: dire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat would not be so dire if he were charming just any old house wives. But according to the television flackery, they are "today's younger, more sophisticated homemakers," those "recently deposed go-go people," those Green Berets of the broom brigade...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...
...dire need of cash, he was rescued by the Teamsters Union, which proffered him a $2,000,000 loan. Soon after, he flailed the Kennedys for "railroading" the Teamster chief. Under the headline, GOD BARRED BY HOFFA'S JAILERS, he recently castigated prison authorities for returning devotional material that some nuns had sent to Convict Hoffa. He explained his own devotion to Hoffa. "As is this newspaper," he wrote, "the Teamsters are concerned with mercy, charity and helping the average citizen of the U.S. gain the highest possible living standards...
Davoren, with an eye to the gubernatorial election in 1970, was interested in gaining a more prestigious position than that of Speaker and had his sights set on replacing. White as the Secretary of State. At some point White connected the dire need for state welfare cost assumption with Davoren's lean and hungry look. He then did the inconceivable. On December 8, White announced that he would not resign as Secretary of State until the legislature had financed the welfare re-organization scheme...
...could lose by a bombing pause, military leaders point out, is the sustained, punishing impact of the daily harassment and destruction of the North's war machine. The University of London's P. J. Honey, an expert on North Viet Nam, believes the North is in dire need of just such a respite. Though no one is predicting the imminent collapse of Ho Chi Minh's regime, the North is obviously under severe strain. In the nearly three years since the bombings began, Honey says, there has been a marked erosion of morale among the North Vietnamese...