Word: direness
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...same crime?the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. So, after all, maybe the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists...
Better Off in a Stable. Smit, an Evangelical minister turned Roman Catholic, argues that the birth of Christ in dire poverty and in the dead of winter is just pious nonsense. By the standards of his time, Joseph was comfortably middleclass: the reason he went from Nazareth to Bethlehem-probably several months before Jesus' birth-was that he had property in Bethlehem and owed taxes to the Roman authorities there...
First, a growing body of students are beginning to accept the government's pleas for white unity behind its policies. They believe that the country is facing a dire Red-Black threat. In the face of terrorism and Black nationalism, they accepted the delusion that the government's program of territorial separation--in which many Africans would have to live in Bantustans--is a workable solution...
...judge supports this decision as well as the gentlemanly tradition that British Cabinet ministers-unlike civil servants-should be exempt from surveillance save in dire national emer gencies. Concludes Denning: "It would be intolerable to us to have anything in the nature of a Gestapo or Secret Police to snoop into all that we do, let alone into our morals...
...main ingredient of this formula is the rescue: one of the kids gets into some dire difficulty and is saved by the prospective groom. When Uncle Red Buttons brings over a lot of surplus weather balloons and rigs up a harness so the boys can try gravity-free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance...