Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most significant change in plans came in October when Harvard accelerated the House renovations, deciding to repair all the buildings in four years instead of the previously planned 10. Spurred by the decline in interest rates and the growing feeling that the structures were in a dangerously dire condition, officials elected to tackle five buildings this spring and summer: Adams House, Claverly Hall, Old Leverett. Old Quincy and the Gore half of Winthrop House. Next summer, officials expect to tackle Dunster. Kirkland and Eliot Houses. In 1985 the projected $50 million endeavor will wind down with repairs in North...
...French, sex acts and objects, and ways of preparing mushrooms. Affirmation Armpit About Babel Bathing A la Schoener Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords Bites Broiled Brio Blowing Broth Clivage Bondage Butter Communaute Boots Canape Corps Butterd bun Canning Commentaire Chains Cauliflower and Derive Chastity belt Creamed Dire Chinese style Croquettes Droite Clothed intercourse Dried Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral intercourse On toast Ketiche Feuille de rose Onions in wine and Guerre Florentine Peas and Imaginaires Foursomes and moresomes Rice ring Inter-texte Friction...
...total amount requested for aid to all of Central America in 1984 is about $600 million; that is less than one-tenth of what Americans will spend this year on coin-operated video games." But failing to make such an investment, he insisted, would have dire consequences. "The national security of all the Americas is at stake in Central America. If we cannot defend ourselves there, we cannot expect to prevail else where. Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put at jeopardy...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone for the two and a half hour meeting with a speech predicting dire consequences for the University if it does not negotiate a good contract with the dining hall workers...
...steadfast liberal, he rarely took unpopular stands or did anything in revolt. That caution showed up more clearly when Mondale became Vice President. He was regarded as politically smart, but he also became known for his nervousness. Carter and his Cabinet members got used to Mondale's early dire warnings of the political consequences of decisions. The Israelis and the Jewish lobby especially unsettled him. When Carter decided against providing the Turks with some promised military equipment, thus pleasing their Greek adversaries, Mondale was exultant about not losing the Greek lobby. "Fritz was shamelessly political," recalls one Carter Cabinet...