Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schine be assigned to special work in New York: by Cohn, 8; by McCarthy, 6. ¶Demands for special privileges for Schine: by Cohn, 9; by McCarthy, 2. ¶Threats that failure to give in to the demands would result in 1) extended investigation of the Army, or 2) dire consequences to Army Secretary Stevens and other Army personnel: by Cohn, 14; by McCarthy...
Like its opposite number in Manhattan, London's Communist Daily Worker regularly passes the hat among faithful party members to keep the paper from going under. Last week, after warning again of the paper's dire financial straits, the Worker's appeal struck a note of unwitting candor: "Our readers are lulling themselves into the belief that there is no danger at all. That is a desperate mistake. The point can and will be reached when the economies we are being forced to effect may result in a much worse paper...
...once a beau of Christopher's lady mother. But Scientist Christopher as firmly resists the P.M. on moral grounds as probably his mother did on matrimonial ones: arguing that spiritual matters, today, lag far behind scientific ones, Christopher will surrender his formula only in time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps because Playwright Morgan prefers the pursuit of ideas to a mere manhunt; the only remaining action...
Against the dire predictions of the pundits, domestic and European, U.S. business is winding up another banner year. In that happy situation, while the doomsayers began to talk ominously of the future, the U.S.S.R.'s propagandists ran off new and louder recordings of an old theme and broadcast them to the world. From Moscow last week...
...purpose of the scholarship fund is to give small amounts of money to boys who are in dire need. Many of the people who come to see us don't know where the next ten or 20 dollars is coming from...