Word: direness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...precarious may require emergency C-sections and general anesthesia which renders them mute and requires their family members to stay in the waiting room. The lungs of very premature babies may be too undeveloped to make a cry. Rarely, when the condition of a mother or baby is dire, nurses and doctors may used hushed tones. And occasionally, a baby may look "funny" to the delivery room staff, silencing their jubilant announcements and necessitating the opinion of a pediatrician...
...inhabitants are under 25. The vast majority come from Brazil's hardscrabble northeastern states, drawn by the hope of work, though unemployment runs at more than 20% in the slums. And while jobs are scarce, says Wilson, "there's no lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer...
...Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under a half-moon. I was in Iraq to profile the American soldier as "Person of the Year" for TIME magazine. It was a dream assignment, a chance to escape Washington and work...
...Andre Akpan even took a dive over the Vermont goalie on a breakaway play.The Crimson’s big break was soon to com when Fucito got the ball on a break- away play. The forward sprinted pass the defenders and charged the Catamount goalie. The goalie, realizing his dire situation, decided to take the dirty way out and blatantly took Fucito down inside the box. The referee was right there for the flagrant foul and promptly awarded a red card to sophomore Tom Critz. Fucito was awarded a penalty kick to be taken from the edge...
...things really so bad? In the new and burgeoning field of obesity research, there was nothing unusual about Booth's address last month. In Australia and New Zealand, as in many Western countries, to open a newspaper or switch on the T.V. is to be assailed by another dire take on what the World Health Organization calls the "worldwide epidemic" of obesity. Clearly, it isn't just the more sensationalist elements of the media but a host of research centers and health bodies that have categorized the trend toward increasing body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak...