Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests warned of the dire consequences if the Reds returned to power with their plan to give half of the teaching posts in church schools to Communists. Both sides plastered mud walls with gory posters. Red posters showed rich Hindus sucking blood and money out of starving peasants. Their opponents splashed a gaudy re-creation...
Such a man might be presumed to be in dire need of psychiatric help. Instead, he gave sexual counsel to millions, for H. E. was Henry Havelock Ellis, the most renowned sexologist of the English-speaking world...