Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the discounters' troubles comes from a general slump in the appliance market. With overall sales down some 10% this year, many a discounter, depending on high volume to make his cut-rate prices pay off, is in dire straits. Chicago's Grossi Bros, cites manufacturers' reports that factory sales of automatic washers are down 28%, conventional washers 32%, electric dryers 44%, refrigerators 20%, dishwashers 32%, stoves 32%. Another worry is increasing competition from conventional retailers who, instead of sitting back, cut prices right and left. St. Louis' Famous-Barr Co. has been matching discount...
Finally the dire need of the Hungarian refugees became a political football when the Chairman of the Combined Charities pistol-whipped the Council into letting World Universities Service handle the funds for the special relief drive. "If WUS doesn't get the money, I won't run the drive," he said, and added that "you can't tell me how to spend my money." Regardless of the merits of WUS, Combined Charities is and should remain an advisory and administrative arm of the Council...
...loudspeakers of Egypt shrilled a voice, urgent, strident, and sharply reminiscent of the days in the early 1930s when another mustached zealot ranted and raved his way across the world stage. The decision of Egypt's 38-year-old President Nasser to seize the Suez Canal, his dire prophecy of an Arab empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic, his incitement to Algerians to rise up against the French-all these were summonses to the diplomats of Foggy Bottom and their opposite numbers in Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay to consider, consult...
...84th Congress, in its second session, was an unwanted political child. It was born last January amid dire predictions that it would grow up as a ne'er-do-well in the broken election-year home of party-style Democracy and Republicanism. But it adjourned last week with surprisingly good grades in conduct...
...Orleans, Emile F. Wagner Jr., president of the Association of Catholic Laymen, organized to oppose integration, announced that under "dire threat of ex communication" from Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel the 30 directors of the association were halting their activities. They plan to send an appeal to Rome, said Wagner: "We are greatly alarmed at the casual way the matter of excommunication and mortal sin has been bandied about, and we greatly fear this has caused great confusion among Catholics...