Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
Congress could either take it, relying on the country's military top men, or it could leave it-cut the potential of the armed forces, and dare the dire warnings of its strategists...
Suffering their first defeat of the season, the Crimson fencing team bowed before the onslaught of a do-or-dire Yale squad by a 17 to 10 score in a meet held last Saturday at New Haven...
Winchell told the press, whose major members stayed out of the controversy, that because of the Blue's action "the war is already lost back home." He hinted at dire backstage figures who were out to get him and, when President Woods telephoned him at his Miami Beach hotel, he sputtered: "How about using your network to say that I think the time has come when the Blue Network should be taken over by the people?" Woods kept calm and Winchell continued: "I intend to remain as free as the air, not as free as the air waves...
...last week continued confidently but soberly to do what no other small nation in Europe could do: run Switzerland as the Swiss thought it should be run. Seven soldiers of the Swiss Army were sentenced to death for treason -first death sentences for military espionage in Swiss history-despite dire warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht...