Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real Reasons. Though old-fashioned in many ways, Britain's steel industry is hardly in dire distress; this year's output is likely to reach a record 26-plus million tons. Moreover, like much of the rest of Britain's highly mixed economy, steel is already a rigidly regulated enterprise, with severe government supervision of prices and investment policy. Steel Federation President E. T. Judge noted: "The White Paper does not make any specific charge of failure against the industry-which it certainly would have done had the evidence existed...
Even with the aid of Chinese MIGs and Russian antiaircraft missiles (none of which have yet turned up), Ho's country could be reduced to an even more dire penury than it now suffers by a mere week of U.S. air strikes. Communist that he is, Ho doubtless dreads the thought of massive aid with manpower from Red China, for it would mean virtual occupation by his vast neighbor. But he presumably has got Lyndon Johnson's message that the U.S. is staunchly committed to the cause of freedom in Southeast Asia...
...single 1,000-acre sand-and-gravel spawning ground near the mouth of Russia's Volga River-even those caught in Iranian waters. An article in Russia's highbrow literary newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, signed by a group of intellectuals that included eight biologists, contained a dire warning that the completion of a projected hydroelectric power station would reduce the spawning grounds to a mere 22 acres...
...widespread as the common cold-and sooner or later everyone has to go to bed with it. Though Cuckold is too long, and made longer by dead-end forays into its hero's fantasy life, Director Antonio Pietrangeli imbues a thin fable with sprightly cynicism about the dire consequences of dalliance for players unable to master the sport...
...ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism" withdraws from Indo-China. On the surface at least, the divided Communist giants were closing ranks...