Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midas touch, though, would also bring it is difficulties. Such an increase in government expenditures would multiply the money supply, raise prices, and bring on inflation. Mr. Scherman, who makes no bones about distrusting our "entrenched bad government," thinks that the only protection for the common man against these dire consequences is to repeal the Gold Prohibition Act. Then, whenever F. D. R. decides to make another paper profit, the common man can demand gold for his paper currently and reduce the gold hoard so much that the profit won't even exist on paper...
...history of democracy that, under such dire circumstances, extraordinary powers must be granted to the elected Executive...
...yard police staff has as yet no definite suspects in mind, but is pursuing the trail of the Snooper Man in relentless fashion. One tutor threatened dire punishment to the guilty one when finally apprehended, declaring "By golly, we'll string him up by the thumbs...
...further indication of the bad taste which that game left in the mouths of the Quakers was the 37.2% vote it received as the biggest disappointment of the year for Penn students. Red and Blue football grizzlies and gorillas were seen stalking around the campus muttering dire threats for at least a week after the game...
...prevent a catastrophe of that extent. But with the German people first in line at the pantry door, with crops this year "well below normal," and with transportation disorganized and distributive channels disrupted, he does not see how widespread; disease-inviting malnutrition can be avoided. Rejecting the more dire forecasts, it appears fairly certain that outside relief is urgently necessary to prevent an incalculable amount of misery and the disasters of epidemics...