Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also in dire need of repair: the area's intricate, ingenious system of underground conduits -called Qanats-which have been used for hundreds of years to distribute water from mountain springs to the arid plateaus...
South Africa's whites are in dire danger of being swamped by sheer numbers. Today, the 3,000,000 "Europeans" are outnumbered by almost 13 million blacks, colored half-castes and Asians. By the year 2000, the surplus of nonwhites will be at least 14 million. Frightened by this prospect. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is sending recruiting agents all over Europe to correct the imbalance by immigration...
...period of danger and tension . . . If Berlin is ever in real trouble, I will be back one way or another-you can be sure of that." To the President, Clay was happy to report that Berlin showed every sign of surviving any onslaught short of outright siege. All the dire predictions that the war of nerves itself would paralyze the city had proved false. Savings accounts now totaled $350,750,000, a new record for West Berlin; twice as many tourists were flooding the city (many to view the ugly Wall itself) as came at the same time last year...
...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...
...unless the varsity reverses its downward trend tonight at 6:45 p.m. in Briggs Cage, the annual dire prediction may come true. The Crimson's performances last weekend defined mediocrity, and captain Mark Mullin, Don Kirkland, Harry Rich, Marty Beckwith, and Jack Spitzberg are not what you would call at their physical peaks...