Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the world has predicted dire things for China if the Burma Road were cut. Now it was cut; the Burma oilfields from which China got most of her oil were all but gone. What were the results...
...Defense Regulations (which allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
Rangoon was in dire danger. Some 40,000 Japanese in the front lines, 30,000 more in reserve pressed toward the last of three rivers which barred their advance. They had crossed the Salween. They put bicycle scouts in Burmese dress, sent them worming ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which...
Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
First of the two courses of study, both of which begin January 26, 1942, will be a 12-month course training men for production work in defense factories which are experiencing a dire shortage of junior supervisors who can cope with urgent Government demands for increased production of vital materials...