Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ogpu (secret police). The discovery of a committee to oppose the Government's grain-export policy was unearthed. This committee was engaged in exhorting the industrial workers, the railway men and the Red Army to thwart the Government, declaring that the latter was impervious to the dire distress of the hungry populace. One of its proclamations: "If the Government persists, let us respond with a general strike. Let us refuse to pay taxes. Let us defy the Ogpu's hireling bands. Let them fire on us; we shall have rifles and machine guns, too. Better to die rifle...
...referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney...
...that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen pieces; this might cut wires and cause dire wreckage, if not complete collapse of the plane...
...eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot away; Belgians who refused to shoot at the Germans; ten pairs of decomposing German ears; "Who will give a thousand dollars to see me dance with the policeman?" "Prohibition is no longer on experiment. It has been tried out with the dire result that it has derailed the morale of America...
This is a somewhat dire prospect. Despite what important critics may say, class officers have, after all a certain measure of usefulness, and if the College is to have a Student Council, it is only right that all the classes should be represented. Any rule abolishing elections in the middle classes would be sure in the course of time to be abolished itself. Nevertheless such a rule has been proposed, in the past and is sure to be proposed again in the future, if the difficulty of the sixty per cent regulation is not overcome. The Sophomore class...