Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Makki returned recently from Washington, announced that he had "documents" and "proof" of all kinds of dire interference by Acheson and Truman. When able U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson successfully rebutted the charges, Mossadegh forced his Deputy Prime Minister to go before a packed Majlis and admit that he had no proof or documents of any sort. Makki never forgot or forgave this...
...Thursday night, went to the Ragged School," he wrote, "and an awful sight it is ... I have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over...
Like many reports, the Financial Report is in dire need of spring housecleaning. Many little odd balances could be written off with ease, but I sympathize with you. Such errors as $143.40 from the National Research Council for making and testing of a series of sound slide films on a single subject, under the direction of the Late Francis T. Spaulding Professor of Education. Spaulding left Harvard in 1945, and died...
...offense, the Crimson is expected to unveil at least a few new things, to get the feel of them before next week. Some top secret stuff, which has been seen at Soldiers Field this week, will be used only in dire emergency...
Sapers added: "Phillips Brooks House is in dire need of funds to supplement its endowments if its to continue its useful work among underprivileged children...