Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after five months and two weeks of dire peril, the two crossed over the river and met together, the one unto the other; and there was a great multitude gathered there when the two reached the nearer bank of the river, which shouted aloud for the honor of the two contestants, that they had prevailed through sore injury and defeat, even through the heat of the middle west and the hostility of the tribes of Boston...
...much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another across the conference tables, the crisis was closely documented in bushels of unhappy statistics...
...before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker for the whole sterling area, her plight also meant the danger of panic and dire economic distress from Manchester to Melbourne...
...months the Department of Agriculture had sent up a dire warning: this summer the U.S. would harvest the second biggest wheat crop in history but would have no place to store it. Taking its own warning to heart, the Government last week began floating twelve Liberty ships out of the Hudson River "mothball fleet" to provide "emergency" storage...
...dire financial straits, Frau Feix got a lawyer to plead her case. Last week, deadlocked on practically everything else on the agenda, Austria's Big Four High Commissioners reached agreement on the case of the kindhearted landlady. They decided that Frau Feix might sell the three rings, keep the proceeds in payment for Samaritan services to her boarder...