Word: direly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayors, have grown enamored of the sharing idea. Once such a goody has been dangled before them, they are not likely to let it be taken away. When Senator Muskie seemed to be backing away from revenue sharing a couple of months ago, the mayors set him straight with dire warnings of political reprisal. Muskie got the message. At the same time that Connally was testifying, a Senate subcommittee was holding hearings on Muskie's own revenue-sharing bill-a plan that would provide $6 billion to the states and localities instead of the Administration's $5 billion...
...embarrassing U-2 affair. Eisenhower supported his generals over his new ally, washing away the good will of Camp David. Khrushchev, in addition, had just repudiated the Chinese by withdrawing technical advisors. To retrieve his lost stature, Khrushchev was in need of a militant ally. There stood Castro in dire economic need and loudly proclaiming his country a member of the socialist community...
Kissinger has been heard to remark around Washington that "Nixon will save us from the hardhats"; but in his undergraduate days, the men alertinging him to the danger of historical collapse were made of more sterling stuff. Kissinger read with particular concern the works of Oswald Spengler, whose dire predictions about the fall of the West had a measurable impact on the young refugee student. The historical forces shaping his early background had recked of decadence. A colleague, Stanley Hoffmann, would remark later that Kissinger "walked in a way with the ghost of Spengler at his side...
Bargain Price. After that, he can be fired, but only for compelling reasons such as flagrant incompetence, moral turpitude or his college's dire financial straits. The college must present formal charges, usually before a jury-like panel of the professor's colleagues. The rules are enforced by the American Association of University Professors, which threatens to put violating colleges on a "censured" list that warns other professors to avoid working at the blackballed institutions...
...Common Market, of course, thrives on crises. Almost every breakthrough has been preceded by dire warnings of the EEC's impending doom and all-night bargaining sessions that finally produced the necessary compromise. Even now, cautious optimism is detectable on both sides. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said casually: "There are really no serious problems with Britain's joining. We want Britain, and all we ask is that . . . she become a club member within the rules." Geoffrey Rippon, Britain's chief negotiator, struck a still cozier metaphor. "Reasonable men, given enough coffee and cognac," he observed...