Word: direness
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...removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests warned of the dire consequences if the Reds returned to power with their plan to give half of the teaching posts in church schools to Communists. Both sides plastered mud walls with gory posters. Red posters showed rich Hindus sucking blood and money out of starving peasants. Their opponents splashed a gaudy re-creation...
Such a man might be presumed to be in dire need of psychiatric help. Instead, he gave sexual counsel to millions, for H. E. was Henry Havelock Ellis, the most renowned sexologist of the English-speaking world...
...people of the United States have not stood up and yelled "phoney" at the Eisenhower administration's dire warnings of inflation, the junior Senator from New Jersey charged last night in a rambling speech before the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense...
What saves South Africa from dire prophecies is the fact that its black middle class-its African traders, lawyers, doctors, clergymen, nurses-are perhaps the most numerous on the continent. They have just enough personal stake to weaken (so far, at any rate) a strong black political movement...