Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing...
...FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrate movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing...
That last victory put the Yankees in first place for the first time all season, and off they went to Baltimore, their new image in dire jeopardy. Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer had predicted that New York would win the pennant, said that his Orioles could not possibly finish better than third. But in the first game, trailing 7-2 with two out in the eighth inning, the Orioles were treated to seven hits and seven runs by the accommodating Yanks. Final score: Baltimore 9, New York 8. "You can't win 'em all," sighed Berra happily...
...World Airways meets political turbulence as often as the natural kind. Pan Am hardly inaugurated its new thrice-weekly New York-Berlin service before Moscow thundered that the nine-hour jet flights violated four-power agreements on Berlin and warned darkly that it could not be responsible for any dire consequences. Predictably, the airline kept right on flying last week, and the Communists did nothing...
...couple of Republican Congressmen, Nebraska's David Martin and Kentucky's Gene Snyder, journeyed South and returned with a tale of dire poverty in Lyndon's own backyard-or, more precisely, Lady Bird's. In Alabama's Autauga County, Lady Bird owns about 3,000 acres of land that she inherited from her family. Much of the land, once cotton-producing, has been turned to timber, but four Negro tenant families still live on some of the property, occupying rundown houses that do more than Lyndon Johnson's words to dramatize poverty...