Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes. When murder was crossed off the list last week, only three capital crimes remained: high treason in time of war, piracy with violence, arson in dockyards...
...hushed, nervous General Assembly of the United Nations listened, the grey-haired man with the lined face and the dry, unresonant voice placed directly on the Soviet Union the blame for the world's woes: "In place of peace, liberty and economic security, we find menace, repression and dire want...
Worst of all local establishments is beasted by "a dire on Trement Street," where the men's and women's divisions are separated by a partition which the candid chronicler discribe as "waist high...
Coach Barnaby's dire predictions about early-season difficulties rang true again over the weekend as his Varsity netmen went down to their fourth and fifth consecutive defeats of the season before powerful Pennsylvania and Princeton squads...
...disappearance of the mascot is the second kidnapping case reported within a week, as band members are still searching for their stolen mystery pet, Six-da" reportedly abducted by a local brewery for dire purposes...