Word: direness
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...announced that the government soon will launch military operations there to regain control. Ky blamed Da Nang's mayor, a 37-year-old doctor, who has been in office since January. Warned Ky: "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." Whether so dire a threat would quell the unrest, or simply fan it, a nervous Saigon-and an anxious Washington-waited...
Plato too suppressed his rage And Socrates, for they were sage. Impatience born of irritation May lead to sin and dire damnation...
While they wait for news of their fate, staffers at all three papers are trying to be stoics. After ten years of hearing of dire change at their paper, Trib employees are perhaps the least ruffled. "As long as we have Whitney's money, we're all right," says one Trib man. Even at the Telegram, where a reporter was recently bawled out for charging 800 on his expense account for 600 worth of subway trips, some reporters are beginning to roll with the rumors. "I tend to let Zen take care of it," said a young Telegram...
...student should not have to be in dire financial need, a mental or physical basket case, 23, or an artist or musician in order to move to a quiet single room. The tensions of Harvard's academic and extra-curricular life are numerous; there are students who need a place of their own where they can step off-stage, relax, do what they want, when they want, where they want...
...While his grandparents will be more than 70 by the time he graduates from high school, "the Bannister home provides Mark with a stable, dependable, conventional, middle-class Middle West background and an opportunity for a college education and profession." In light of Psychologist Hawkes's "warnings of dire consequences," the court said it could not send Mark to "an uncertain future in his father's home. We do not believe we have the moral right to gamble with this child's future...