Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huey, whom authorities discovered had been in the Stadium since early Tuesday afternoon, was escorted to the gate muttering dire threats against the Bengal eleven "We'll murder you bums 14 to 0," he spluttered. Notre Dame 20 Army 7 Temple 14 Boston College 7 Colgate 7 Holy Cross 0 Cornell 21 Columbia 6 Fordham 14 Purdue 0 Navy 7 Penn 0 Brown 14 Yale 7 Nebraska 14 Kansas State 0 Tennessee 20 L.S.U. 7 Texas 24 So Methodist 13 California 7 UC.L.A...
...Negro company of the 367th Infantry at Camp Claiborne, La., a black first sergeant spoke dire words: "From now on when Ah blows dis yere whistle, Ah wants to see a huge impenetratable cloud of dust come boilin' outa them tents. An' when 'at dust clears away, Ah wants to find three rows of statues...
...only less dire month was July 1940, before the Battle had grown angry. That month 258 were killed. Worst month was September, with 6,954 deaths. Total for the 13 months: 41,488 killed...
...invoked formal power priorities for the first time. The victim was Carolina Aluminum Co., which was ordered to reduce its deliveries of firm power to nearby Duke Power Co., stop drawing down reservoir water, in effect keep its power for itself. To help explain the South's dire straits, FPC had already turned to an old Government scapegoat, Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from other customers...
...money spent for this nonproductive work has shown results. In spite of dire predictions, Britain is extremely healthy after a year of total war. Deaths from many diseases have dropped sharply (partly, doctors think, because of healthier diets enforced by rationing) and only cerebrospinal fever, the '"disease of overcrowding," has shown a heavy increase. The big job of cleaning up bomb damage, demolishing Blitzed houses, repairing buildings and roads, is full-time work for 80,000 men, with the result that the country shows far fewer scars than it might after nearly a year of air raids...