Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except in dire emergencies the pilots of U.S. commercial jets are far too cautious to try blind landings with zero-zero visibility. When weather conditions at their target runways are worse than 200-½ (200ft. ceiling, half-mile visibility), they are diverted to the nearest usable airport, which may be hundreds of miles away. The system is remarkably safe; during 1963 no fatal accident to a scheduled airline was caused by bad landing visibility. But passengers who were taken to Montreal instead of New York were seldom grateful, and airlines suffered financially. The Federal Aviation Agency figures that weather delays...
...best and most understanding audience, but this is only partly true. Jazz has lost all its gaiety; its musicians commonly drive their listeners away by discouraging any pleasure in the act of perceiving the sounds. The audience that remains plays it cool, and the atmosphere that results is dire and deeply uncomfortable...
...arrived, she died. In Louvain, a four-year-old girl suffocated to death while her parents tried for an hour and a half to summon medical assistance. All over Belgium last week, the sick and the dying similarly went without medical attention, except-when it could be provided-in dire emergencies. The reason was a crippling doctors' strike in which 85% of the nation's 12,000 physicians and dentists closed their offices...
...story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with him in real life, rose from bed, drove through the night for three hours, and indeed found his brother in Connecticut helpless, alone and in dire medical straits...
Dawning Suspicion. In Havana, Fidel Castro accused the U.S. of "a cold war act of aggression," while Cuba's men at the U.N. stormed about a new confrontation as dire as the 1962 mis sile crisis. In reprisal, Castro shut off the water that Cuba has been supplying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. Guantanamo's fresh water comes from a pumping station on the Yateras River four miles from the base, is paid for by the U.S. at the rate of $14,000 a month. The Cubans have kept the pumps going...