Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tally the supporting voices, add mine to yours. Let's get the job done in Cuba ourselves, once and for all. Anger and resentment are not enough to contain encroaching Communism; traditional American action is long overdue. I'll wager the consequences will not be as dire as predicted. S/SGT. CALVIN D. REAM U.S.A.F...
Until the closing hours of the conference. Commonwealth leaders had threatened to sign dissenting communiques embodying the dire strictures they had delivered at Marlborough House; an even greater danger was that they would demand concessions to accommodate all their special trading interests that the Six could not possibly grant...
...these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...
...pours forth detail after detail, while the camera modulates between the actual present and the past conjured up by X's words. A almost never breaks her mysterious silence and never tells X that she remembers him even when they flee the hotel together to escape the dire presence of M. Did they meet, or didn't they? Even Resnais and Robbe-Grillet don't agree on that, nor is there any reason why they should. Ambiguity, after all, only presents difficulty to the person who wants to resolve it. Quite clearly, one ought to accept L'Annee Derniere...
...living in much of Latin America ... I hope that in our concentration on the particular problem [ Cuba ] which I discussed at the opening we will extend our view and realize that what's at stake here is the freedom of a good many countries which are in very dire straits today . . . We are engaged in a tremendous operation with insufficient resources. And I think we are moving ahead since Punta del Este. But there's an awful lot of business left unfinished, and will be for some time. You cannot remake the face of Latin America overnight...