Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such indefinite terms that they can't be wrong. Only the future will determine whether the U.S. is now undergoing a "rolling readjustment" or "recession," or merely passing once again through a period of "Whatchamacallit," i.e., a troubled economic period which gives rise to all manner of dire predictions...
RADIO set production has come back so strongly this year, despite the dire predictions of television enthusiasts, that output for the first seven months totaled 7,941,000 v. 10,935,000 in all of 1952. Total for the year may exceed 14 million sets, one of the biggest in radio history. Reasons: the continuing demand for extra sets in the kitchen and bedroom, and car radio output...
...admit him to its law school on the ground that he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in the state. Since then. Negroes have found themselves on scores of once forbidden campuses. In almost every case, their experiences have fallen into a sort of pattern. There have been dire predictions of trouble and periods of tension. But the trouble has rarely materialized, and the tension has soon melted away...
...painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never venture inside it. "Dogs see everything in greys and whites," explained one dog expert. "A white painted line probably...
...Lilburn had murdered his manservant George with an ax. Then, before the terrified eyes of his younger brother Isham and the other slaves, the body was thrown on the fire, the flesh burned off, the bones gathered and buried. What was young George's crime to fetch such dire punishment? He had broken a pitcher that had been prized by the boys' dead mother...