Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...castigate farmers who hoard their grain for higher prices, the Kansas City Grain Market Review last week turned to the Bible, dug up a dire admonition: "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." (Proverbs...
...glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years or conceived in its spirit." Ferguson is an apostle of solid sense, has no time for the "dire Freudian symbolism...
...progress of puppetry is not yet a dire threat to Free China. The Jap still clings to his ancient arrogance; to the bulk of China's masses he is still a "monkey thief." But the danger is serious...
British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...
Those amateurish prognostications do not include Cornell's many entries, because little is known of that squad, but no dire tales of budding Weismullers have emanated from the Ithaca district. The smaller New England colleges, such as Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams, turned in only mediocre times in the New England meet last week. All in all, it should be a wide open affair in most events. If Yale were entered, things would be different...