Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether the 100-year-old prophecy of Messrs. Chew & friends was going to come true...
...hrer's addresses. Before the Bureau was created editors were left to their own devices in straightening out Hitler's tortured utterances. They frequently failed and sometimes inadvertently produced a malicious twist to the Führer's statements. As an example of the dire need for expert editing for Adolf Hitler it was officially explained that before the Bureau began its work "80% of the quotations attributed to Hitler were misquotations...
...lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which Soviet Leaders were still set as a matter of prestige. To help get enough pencils for the election, the State last week was having Soviet pupils and Soviet teachers in numerous schools do their writing and arithmetic entirely without lead pencils...
...thinks that today the Kremlin prefers to have in Moscow diplomatic and other representatives who are sufficiently Capitalist not to worry about whether Stalin has betrayed the Revolution: "The Kremlin . . . outwardly pretending satisfaction over the appointment of William Christian Bullitt as the first American plenipotentiary, actually viewed him with dire misgivings, only too well borne out by his subsequent withdrawal in a mood of tight-lipped disappointment. Mr. Bullitt's successor, a corporation lawyer with lots of money [Ambassador Joseph E. Davies], unencumbered by pro-Soviet leanings, was far more to the Kremlin's taste...
...Walter B. Cannon put himself on record on this matter by referring to: "The quick insight of the faculty and of the student members into the dire need of the wounded men who have fought for the legitimate government of Spain...