Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of the United States have not stood up and yelled "phoney" at the Eisenhower administration's dire warnings of inflation, the junior Senator from New Jersey charged last night in a rambling speech before the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense...
What saves South Africa from dire prophecies is the fact that its black middle class-its African traders, lawyers, doctors, clergymen, nurses-are perhaps the most numerous on the continent. They have just enough personal stake to weaken (so far, at any rate) a strong black political movement...
...long flight of stairs and moves, oh so slowly and wearily, along the second story. We see then that the strain of the banquet has been too much for her, that she is beginning to crack, that she is no longer in full command. We sense that something dire will befall her; and indeed this is the last time we shall see her in a conscious state. This exit contrasts wonderfully with her first entrance; and the two form a bracketing frame for her entire life on stage as a complete human being...
...nomination last month said: "I don't think I am cut out for this very high office. I shall have to force myself to cope with it." But, badly split following the resounding feud between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats were in dire need of an uncontroversial candidate for the high, if largely ceremonial, office of President...