Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another factor that might win a few votes for the anti-underpass cause is the state's dire financial situation. According to this theory, the high cost of the underpasses, about $7 million, might induce some legislators to switch...
...case of dire need, when characters fail to move and ideas remain hopelessly mired, many an author falls back on a reliable device. He hauls his characters (and the reader) into church, and there, cloaked in clerical robes, delivers a sermon that sets everybody straight on what the novel is about. By extraordinary coincidence, literary sermons are always marvelously germane: no hero-wretch taken in adultery is ever made to sit through a discourse on the nature of the Holy Ghost...
...case of Angus Wilson's latest novel, the need is dire indeed. Its characters and their predicaments are sharply observed, but there seems no very good reason for observing them. Wilson's heroine is a lower-middle-class Englishwoman named Sylvia Calvert who at 65 retires as a manageress of a seaside hotel and goes with her reprobate husband to live with their widowed son. The son is a braying ass who busies himself with the affairs of his community, one of Britain's scientifically planned New Towns. He has a snobbish daughter and two sons...
...ways. The U.S. was insistent about trying to sustain a group of civilian politicians against overthrow by a junta of disgusted young generals, has come close to a parting of the ways, with Vietnamese Commander in Chief Nguyen Khanh loudly denouncing U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and the U.S. muttering dire threats about curtailing or withholding aid to Viet...
...where U.S companies are investing at the rate of $4,000,000 a week, the government is under mounting pressure to require part local ownership of foreign subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened last week to dire predictions that their country may be over run by an "invasion" of powerful U S corporations, whose investment there has risen to $1.2 billion. Said Rene Sanson of the National Assembly's finance commission: "The potential of the U S scares...