Word: direness
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...painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never venture inside it. "Dogs see everything in greys and whites," explained one dog expert. "A white painted line probably...
...Lilburn had murdered his manservant George with an ax. Then, before the terrified eyes of his younger brother Isham and the other slaves, the body was thrown on the fire, the flesh burned off, the bones gathered and buried. What was young George's crime to fetch such dire punishment? He had broken a pitcher that had been prized by the boys' dead mother...
...greatest constitutional crises the country has ever faced," said the American Bar Association, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be passed to protect the Union from dire peril...
...most momentous constitutional issue since President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court," said the Washington Post, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be defeated to protect the Union from dire peril...
...early days of television, newsmen often made dire predictions that TV would cut deeply into newspaper circulation. But they soon found out they were wrong; TV reporting of major news events seemed to whet readers' appetites for stories about them. Last week, when 40 million TV-viewers watched the British coronation, soaring newspaper sales all over the U.S. proved again that newspaper circulation thrives on TV. Said the New York Daily News: "Movie reels were rushed across the Atlantic . . . and fed into TV as fast as they arrived. The radio . . . brought the sounds of the coronation...