Word: direness
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Said Walker in announcing his candidacy: "National survival is the overriding issue. America's retreat, based on a no-win policy, has put this nation in dire peril . . . There is no hope in sight for relief from the devious feelers of machine politics. America is stronger than the thunder on the left would have us believe...
...weary scholar in search of truth can no longer "Swing--to the Real Thing." Harvard, and all of Cambridge, have been left open-mouthed and empty-handed by a dire lack of Coca-Cola. This unprecedented occurrence is due to a two-week-old Teamster strike against Coke...
...Harvard Civil Rights Committee next week will solicit funds for SNCC, which according to reports from its headquarters in Atlanta is in dire need of money. Eighteen SNCC workers are now living on a subsistence salary of $20 per week...
...actors goosestep through their roles so rigidly they give the impression that some dire punishment awaits them if they show emotion. Nadja Tiller manages to enchant at least ten men without showing any more warmth than a champion poker player...
Recovering in European hospitals after dire prognoses: Spain's Matador Número Uno Antonio Ordóñez, 29, who stumbled over his muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed...