Word: direful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining that a dire need has existed throughout the summer and the fall, Campbell pointed out that supplies purchased from the $12,000 collected here during August were still being distributed. "It is very unfortunate," he stated, "that the shipping strike has delayed them for so long...
More than once the miseries of Cartoonist Al Capp's (Li'l Abner) mythical, snowbound Slobs, "dropping dad from all kinds starwation," have found not too exaggerated counterparts in reality. In eastern Europe there were at least two genuine foreign envoys in straits almost as dire as the Slobbovian Ambassador...
...high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
...dire financial straits if it is, wouldn't it be more decent for it to shaw a little moral courage by raising the price of the Student's Participation Ticket enough to get the organization out of debt. Or did the price of handballs go up with the murder of OPA, causing increased operating costs To tax a student's wife, already hard pressed to find an occasional evening's recreation within her vet-husband's 90-buck budget, an extra 40-odd percent for a swim is a practice that surely will not bring praise to the Harvard Athletic...
...good wheat, and another bumper crop. Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...