Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dire presentiment which caused devout little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to send his young wife and chubby children away to Italy with the words "You will be safe where you are going" (TIME, July 23) was fulfilled last week by a grisly and relentless fate...
...Hinckley, special representative of the Relief Administration, bobbed up unexpectedly in San Francisco, briskly announced: "Nobody is going to suffer from lack of food in San Francisco. The U. S. Government will see to that. At present we are canvassing the situation and are awaiting results. . . . If a dire situation develops, we will do something and do it quick...
...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...
...alone have dared to point out the dire need for air defense of London. You have muzzled others who have deplored this shameful neglect. You have treated my patriotic gesture with a contempt such as no other government would have been guilty of toward a patriot...
...even dire threats from Japan's militarists had any effect on her strong-minded gold miners. They continued to smuggle, to hoard. Last week the Government loosened up a little. With gold worth around $33 per ounce in Manhattan and London the legal price in Tokyo was raised to 9.94 yen per momme (equal to 3.75 grammes) which worked out that day at $25.81 an ounce...