Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morgan libraries felt so strongly about the matter that they formed a Manuscripts Emergency Committee. "The threat to the integrity of existing collections," said the committee, "is real and immediate. We believe that the position taken by the Government is untenable." Other bookmen began to ask all sorts of dire questions. Would the New York Public Library, for instance, have to give up Washington's Farewell Address? And what about the Adams papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society-and the Hoover papers at Stanford University? Said Librarian William Lingelbach of the American Philosophical Society : "Every library...
MANY foreign businessmen like to protest that their success or failure hinges on fluctuations in U.S. tariffs; e.g., when the U.S. boosted bicycle tariffs British businessmen forecast dire effects for their industry. Yet few of them look to see where their own countries stand on tariffs. There is strong evidence that while the U.S. has been steadily reducing tariffs, many other nations have been dragging their feet. Example: after the U.S. cut duties on cotton goods up to 50%, Japanese imports doubled; they poured in so fast that Japan last week clamped on an embargo for fear of U.S. reprisals...
Almost every aspect of the show seemed to suffer the dire effects of too little time. Fortunately, there were frequent indications that this was the major shortcoming of the whole affair; most of the actors showed that despite their lack of polish they were capable of highly creditable performances, and John van Itallie's direction, too, seemed a basically competent job spoiled by lack of time for study and correction...
...Secondly, because the entire membership o Brook House "is composed of Harvard students," and thirdly, because PBH is at present in dire financial need which jeopardizes its philanthropic program to the point where activities will have to be drastically curtailed...
...help interpret France to the world, Réaltiés launched an English-language edition in 1950, despite dire warnings that a foreign magazine (particularly at $15 a year) could not compete for readers and advertisers on the crowded U.S. market. After dropping $110,000, the English edition has built the biggest U.S. circulation (39,000) of any foreign publication, will start making money by year...