Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest constitutional crises the country has ever faced," said the American Bar Association, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be passed to protect the Union from dire peril...
...most momentous constitutional issue since President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court," said the Washington Post, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be defeated to protect the Union from dire peril...
...early days of television, newsmen often made dire predictions that TV would cut deeply into newspaper circulation. But they soon found out they were wrong; TV reporting of major news events seemed to whet readers' appetites for stories about them. Last week, when 40 million TV-viewers watched the British coronation, soaring newspaper sales all over the U.S. proved again that newspaper circulation thrives on TV. Said the New York Daily News: "Movie reels were rushed across the Atlantic . . . and fed into TV as fast as they arrived. The radio . . . brought the sounds of the coronation...
...case against Collier's Bucklin Moon [TiME, April 27] is the most exasperating of a long list of outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...
...approval in the last months of his life. It was the Kremlin's first open admission that its secret police can err, the first time that the Soviet people had heard from their rulers' lips that torture has been used as a method of police interrogation. Whatever dire necessity, of intrigue or revenge, had moved the Malenkov government to risk such admissions must plainly be of vast and vital import...