Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday, after months of quibbling and needless delay, the gaso-line-rubber conservation program went into effect throughout the nation. Yet, in spite of the Bausch report, and statements by President Roosevelt and Rubber Administrator Jeffers as to the dire necessity of this measure, many Oklahomans and 166,000 out of 546,000 Detroit car owners refused to register. Mr. Jeffers warned "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters--the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand...
There were those liberals who felt that London would in no way attempt to interfere with the freedom of India and other territories while England herself was desperately engaged in a struggle for her own independence. But bristling forth with the arrogance that was silent during dire emergency, the tweedy elements guarantee the world the Empire of old. They promise no large new concessions to British holding. The fall of Sir Stafford Cripps from a position of influence is more evidence of this...
...Toronto, which General and Mrs. Carpenter recently visited on their tour of inspection, the Army War Cry reported that after the official welcome, "brigades of Salvationists raided Toronto's sordid night-life haunts with dire results to enemy ranks. Scores of captured were escorted to the Temple where hot coffee was served, drunkards were sobered and repentant souls sought salvation...
Home-guard guerrillas were organized in Australia as the Japs, advancing in New Guinea, advanced also toward the Australian mainland. Everybody in Australia knew that MacArthur's planes were too few, their crews overworked; that Australia invaded would be in dire straits. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Eraser, just home from the U.S., broadcast: "We shall have to steel ourselves for the next twelve months. . . . It's not enough simply to hold the enemy. The United Nations must advance...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...