Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This emergency is so dire, so immediate and so pressing that no effort we could conceivably make would be more than just enough. The very best we can possibly do . . . will be just good enough, with nothing to spare. . . . Such was the judgment passed on the U.S. defense problem last week by OPM's Director Donald M. Nelson...
Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
...help along "collaboration" Vichy last week was invaded by a propaganda army from the Occupied Zone. For three days hatless, raincoated members of the pro-Nazi National Popular Assembly stayed in the new French capital breathing dire but incoherent threats until they were bounced out by the Garde Mobile. Since France already is so completely under Germany's thumb that an estimated 90% of her industrial production goes to the Third Reich, "collaboration" could mean only one thing-acquiescence to the passage of German troops to Spain and Africa, permitting Germany to use France's African colonies...
...allowed to volunteer at the start, or had been drafted, the shortage today would be very serious indeed. One wonders whether we in the United States will be far-sighted enough to profit by the example. The question touches both our national defense and the continuation in time of dire emergency of our centers of advanced teaching and research...
...Somaliland in the south. Italian resistance in Marda Pass before Harar was surprisingly light, and the British met almost no resistance at Harar itself. This column's mission-breaking the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad-was accomplished at week's end when the British announced they had occupied Dire Dawa, the nearest station to Harar on the railway, and that the Italians had withdrawn westward toward the capital. Main reason given by the Italians for this withdrawal was again British air activity. All week long and all along the railroad, the British bombed trains, supply depots, bridges, tracks. With...