Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of his assignment got around, he and his wife got a stream of anonymous telephone calls threatening them with dire trouble if he didn't lay off. Johnson changed his phone to an unlisted number and went on prying information out of dockwallopers, union bosses, thugs, shipowners and police files...
...Album staff have been acutely aware of the shortcomings of the Album organization and of the fact that this organization is in dire need of overhauling. You will be interested to know that on Friday, April 22. I turned over to Robert Fischelis, President of the Student Council, a report on the Album which embodies many of the points you made in your editorial. We have suggested the discontinuance of the Redbook, the conversion of the Album to a yearbook, including the activities of all the classes in the college, and the inclusion of Freshmen and Sophomores on the Album...
...Gayden, is tall and blond; he wears a sufficiently causal blue blazer, drapes himself expertly on a mantelpiece, and quotes poetry on the run. He also apparently has quite a past, with dire hints of such escapades as pushing a boy off a roof, breaking the hearts of countless women (one of whom, it seems, subsequently stuck her head in a gas oven,) and driving his college roommate to hanging himself--a Harvard, inevitably...
...Best Hope. "After all our victories, we are now faced by perils, both grave and near, and by problems more dire than have ever confronted Christian civilization . . . There remains, however, a key of deliverance: . . . the creation of a world instrument, capable at least of giving to all its members security against aggression...
...point is this: the landlord has a right to a fair return on his investment regardless of the fact that he is a member of a minority group and hence not interesting to the so-called "Fair Deal." What about the dire predictions that accompanied the removal of the O.P.A.? Has there been a continuing spiral? No, the law of supply and demand is quickly re-asserting itself...