Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties, couples staggering out onto the streets recklessly drunk, and crack-ups on the road back to Wellesley. Yet in extending room hours to 11 p.m. for ordinary weekends three years ago, the Masters undertook a similar risk, and the results have been encouraging. In sharp contrast to the dire predictions of the Faculty, few students have abused their new privilege. Undergraduates have shown that they are capable of responsible social behavior on ordinary Saturdays. They deserve the Faculty's confidence on football weekends...
...that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...
Facing up to this dire possibility, Fuel Minister Lloyd told an anxious House of Commons that British industry must drastically wean itself from dependence on coal for power. By 1960, said Lloyd, British oil refineries (expanding at breakneck speed) will provide enough fuel oil to replace 25 million tons of coal a year. Thereafter, he added, he is counting on atomic power to drive out "the specter of the coal...
From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...
...spiritual meaning. The Swedes regard the church as a proper place to marry in or be buried from; only a handful go to Sunday worship. The bishop with whom I spoke-one of those who signed the notorious letter-personally opposes abortions and birth control "except in cases of dire medical necessity." But he admitted to me that he had never spoken out against either of these things in church, because he "did not think it would be proper, as long as they are legal." Whatever the cause, sexual moral standards in Sweden today are jolting to an outsider. Statistics...