Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Else what, huh? Well, the old 12-gauge pump still shoots pretty good, and you ain't so far from here if one sets forth with dire purpose...
Because of the dire financial straits of the H.A.A., the proposed trip would in no way be subsidized by the athletic office. The expenses of the excursion, which would amount to approximately $2000, must be completely covered by flat money guarantees before the Crimson hoopers leave Cambridge...
...difficult to say enough about "Cabin in the Sky." And whatever you say, you can't recapture in words the magic of appeal, the imaginative realism of its political journeys to the evangelist's dire threat of Hell and glowing promise of the Pearly Gates. It may be that it has succeeded in finding the spirit of the Negro more truly than ever before; if it is has at all fallen short of this ideal, it suffers none as pure entertainment. It's worth pawing your roommate's dress clothes and flunking an hour exam to see "Cabin...
...unexplored, with few and primitive roads. If he turned to the west and south he would have to travel through narrow valleys. But if he should break through to a point 70 miles north of Manila-whether through marshes or mountains-he would have Manila and the Philippines in dire peril. For from that point the roads are broad and straight, the country fair...
...reverse of the action taken by Dartmouth authorities last year when, for the first time since Eleanor Wheelock bought a dozen acres and a ski jump from the local Indian tribe in exchange for some 500 of New England rum. Dartmouth men were threatened with the dire punishment of dismissal for getting liquored...