Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...
...week began badly enough, with raids lasting as long as seven and a half hours, with as many as six alarms a day. But when Winston Churchill verbally thumbed his nose in answer to Herr Hitler's dire speech of warning, and when the R. A. F. lashed out at German targets harder than ever, the Fuhrer's temper broke. He ordered the works...
...this country can be disinterested in the effect on our future of a defeat for Great Britain. . . . Aid-the most effective aid that the U. S. can render without impairing our own necessary defense-may be unpopular at the moment because men and women do not understand the dire necessity. But if they were told, sir, their support and their conviction would be immediate in response...
...about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over the Somaliland border toward Italy's supply lines through Giggiga, Harar, Dire Dawa...
Close on the heels of Tuesday night's fracas in which seven students were arrested by Cambridge police, a statement was issued by Dean Hanford yesterday sharply warning undergraduates of the dire consequences of participating in "public disturbances" and threatening the severance of a student's connections with the University...