Word: direness
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...meantime, there were serious problems to fix. The fall campaign season could hardly have looked more dire for the Democrats. In mid-September, two dozen Democratic Congresswomen came to the Yellow Oval Room and laid out their desperation to Hillary over coffee and Danish. Their problem was what they called, out of politeness, "the clutter." Clinton himself was useless to them as a campaigner; he was a prisoner of the briefing room and the fund raisers. She was the one politician in the country who would not be interrupted with questions about the scandal. In the miraculous month of October...
...supply-demand imbalance is testimony to the dire need ACE was created to meet. Its volunteer force of 110 must cope with an age 85-plus population that at last count totaled 18,541--a 92% surge since 1990. It is also testimony to the vision of ACE's founder, Leonard M. Friedman, 84, a former attorney and a retired associate justice of the California court of appeal...
...dame Lee picks up from the catwalk, Supermodel, claims that her only flaw is that she is "poly-morphously perverse." After dinner, they head off to the nightclub El Flamingo. Sadly, their sexy dancing session at the club is interrupted when Supermodel sneezes and realizes that she is in dire need of echinacea. The two have to search New York in the middle of the night for the wonder drug, which, need-less to say, gets in the way of Lee and Supermodel's going home together. Luckily, however, another club attendee has some in his jacket pocket...
...born to a poverty even more dire emotionally than it was economically. His father Elias was one of those feckless figures who wandered the heartland at the turn of the century seeking success in many occupations but always finding sour failure. He spared his children affection, but never the rod. They all fled him at the earliest possible moment...
...such dire numbers don't stop armchair generals from fantasizing. Prying Saddam out of Baghdad with Iraqi rebels is a doomed enterprise, they believe. "If you were to have a credible program for the removal of Saddam Hussein, it's going to involve U.S. ground troops," says Senator Richard Lugar, an influential member of the Foreign Relations Committee. And if Saddam won't give up power? "I suspect then," Lugar says, "that he will have to be killed." The Indiana Republican concedes he's using "a novelist's imagination" to chart Saddam's fate. Pentagon officials agree that such wishful...