Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When correspondents came in to congratulate and interview him, his voice shook: "I have had little contact with the outside world, but I ... believe the War Department and the American people lave accepted my dire disaster with a forbearance and generosity greater than any in the experience of any other defeated commander...
...Velasco, high-minded and still "impractical," is trying to revive his country, looted for centuries by "practical" rulers. But his view of financing has not changed. Recently, in dire need of money for vital public works, he noted the $6,500,000 which the Central Bank of Ecuador had earmarked to back the country's currency. "It's so simple," he was heard to say. "The money is there. No one is using it. Just take it from one book and put it in another...
...Italian Manner. Italy is in dire need of coal, raw materials, and food. The Allies are doing all they can to help Italy, but that may not be enough. A top Cabinet member said that the situation may be so serious in a few months that the Communists might decide the time was ripe for revolt. The Communist Party is growing, and many of the new members are ex-Fascists...
Belsen From the Belsen camp LIFE Correspondent George Rodger reported: As Winston Churchill addressed the British troops on the banks of the Rhine on March 26, I heard him say: "We are now entering the dire sink of iniquity." These seemed strange words and I did not understand the full meaning of them until today, when at Belsen I witnessed the ultimate in human degradation. There the six-square-mile, barbed-wire enclosure in the heart of a rich agricultural center has been a hell on earth for 60,000 men, women & children of a dozen different nationalities who were...
Some of the dire tales connected with the rest of the boys on the leave are still coming out. Fred Ballantine was seen chasing Bonita Granville through the cars of a UP express with a telegram as an excuse. Herman Homer Cono stuck his head into some place where it didn't belong and he came out with only his bare top to show. B. A. Johnson also ran afoul of a pair of shears in the basement of Gallatin and now stands as living testimony of what the Coop can do to those who don't pay their bills...