Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holds nothing more than ten days of bliss--at home for those who live in the region served by the Boston Weather Bureau, on the trains for those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken's face recently; could...
Manpower. The industry had 600,000 workers during the early part of 1944. Now its payrolls were down to 400,000 and the mills were in dire need of furnace repairmen and common laborers. There was bad news ahead in the skilled-trades brackets too: 60,000 of the industry's best technical workers between the ages of 26 and 29 were up for the draft this year...
From here on just consult a junior officer when in dire need and get your old eight hours, and you need have no fears
...this dire emergency, Hitler appointed his tank expert, Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian, to take command of the whole Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical...
...Germans openly admitted the gravity of the uprising. They proclaimed a state of siege and dire punishment if armed revolt persisted. Theaters and cafes were closed, a curfew clamped on from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parisians were ordered to stay away from their windows at all times, to leave doors open at night (for easy search). Gatherings of more than three persons were verboten...