Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, there have been virtually no reprecusscions or dire affects from the female assault. "They've been completely and easily absorbed into the school" is the way Dean of Admissions Louis A. Toepter puts...
Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
...some 235 past and present Quiz Kids who were gathered to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the program's first appearance on the air. Some of the earliest Quiz Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally or got into any serious trouble. Not one has even turned out to be just plain shiftless...
...inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis is "scarcely less vital," said he, than the dire days when the Nazis rained bombs over London...
...smoked incessantly, stopping only to eat and sleep . . . I have never, except when I was ill, done anything on the ground that it was good for health. I eat what I like and don't eat what I don't like, even when I am told that dire consequences will follow. They never...