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Word: direly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leisure. Daniel Chester French's famous Minuteman statue, she mused, "is rather splendid, though full of youthful literalism." Thoreau, she observed, is "a hero of the hippies, a dedicated dropout who was turned on by nature." Deftly summing up Hawthorne's stories as "tales of the dire results of invading the privacy of someone's secret heart," she added tartly that Hawthorne once confessed that he found Thoreau " 'tedious, tiresome and intolerable'-which he probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Intelluptuously Speaking | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...tide of unskilled rural migrants floods the crowded ghettos, choking the cities' power to provide jobs, housing, education, transportation, police protection, or even breathable air. Another 100 million souls will join the population by the year 2000, leading the Administration to see an impending social holocaust so dire that, as Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman put it, it will make "last summer a pink tea party compared with what's ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Back to the Land? | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...epoch (10,000 to 200,000 years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Fever Chart for Fossils | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...defense plants, was able to place more than 150,000 Negroes in jobs never before open to them. "What the Urban League means to the Negro community," said Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma, his classic 1944 study of U.S. race relations, "can best be understood by observing the dire need of its activity in cities where there is no local branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Other 97% | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...when Wilcox and his band, stumbling down to a prearranged meeting site at 15,000 ft., waited two days without further contact with the higher party, an attempt to turn back was thwarted by the storm. After four more days, with supplies low, Wilcox and his group were in dire peril themselves until a party from the Mountaineering Club of Alaska came to their aid. After a harrowing nighttime descent, Wilcox swam four icy streams to reach the Wonder Lake ranger station, which sent a helicopter back to rescue his four companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: Denali Strikes Back | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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