Word: direness
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...dean will find HBS in much less dire straits than McArthur did. We hope that the dean will continue McArthur's custom of constantly talking to students and faculty and giving their concerns equal priority. McArthur's move to integrate and involve HBS with its surrounding communities also set a commendable example...
...Krokodiloes said that Epps's office even forbade their members, including those not under investigation, from speaking with the press. Epps's office enforced this dire obstruction of free speech with the threat of Administrative Board hearings. Such action could be grounds for a civil rights suit...
...said that he had realized several days ago that The Salient was not in a dire situation and that Frisbie was wrong...
Interestingly, it was just around the time of my Minesweeper cure that Cohen's Solitaire confession appeared, with its dire warning "not to start, not to move even a single black queen on a red king, lest before you know it you have imperiled your marriage and neglected your family." Hmm. The warning pricked my curiosity. I had never tried Solitaire, but when someone of Cohen's intelligence finds himself so intrigued by a game of this kind ... Well, I might just have a quick peek...
...Dutch crisis was most dire, but Europeans elsewhere were also scrambling to escape the second epic deluge in 13 months. Upriver, in Germany, the Rhine rose to 10.69 m at Cologne, equaling the century's record height dating from 1926. Overflows turned the riverside Altstadt, or old town, a tourism and entertainment quarter, into a Venice North. Murky waters gurgling through the medieval byways filled the basement of the Philharmonic Center. Still, the music managed to triumph. Pumps labored through the evening to keep the concert hall dry, and the orchestra, like the band on the Titanic, played...