Word: direness
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After 10 days, Andrea was nearly catatonic. Electroshock therapy was considered. But Starbranch decided to try an "emergency injection" formulated from a cocktail of drugs, including the antipsychotic Haldol, which she used only in dire cases. The effects were immediate, recalls Rusty. His wife exhaled like a wounded animal and moved erratically around the room before she slept...
...Wehbe, anxiously puffing on his pipe this morning as he stole glances at the screen, the contrast with the cosmopolitan city he left behind - and the thought that a return might be years away - was almost as demoralizing as the dire reports themselves. "If I have to stay here another week, I think I'm going to go crazy, that's the honest truth," Wehde moaned. "I need to stop thinking about this, but it's impossible. If there were any girls here, that would help. But there aren't any, not really. The ones there are, they're religious...
...term formally ends in 2008] at the pinnacle of world glory, with ensuring his place in history," the Russian diplomat says. But he is not guided by a strategic vision. "There is only the vision of his grandeur, which is illusionary, and which is fraught with bad risks and dire consequences for Russia," the diplomat concludes...
...nothing to prevent it. Through floods, bombs and riots, Bombayites have been forced to rely on their famous resilience and humanity?because they can't rely on their government. Perhaps this horrific tragedy will powerfully focus the government on the problems of the country's galloping urbanization, and the dire need to invest in infrastructure...
...vezism and restoring the U.S.'s image in Latin America would be to unilaterally lift the embargo on Cuba. The U.S. embargo has never worked as a tool to weaken Castro. Instead it has provided him with a wonderful excuse to hide his failures and justify the island's dire poverty and harsh political repression. The embargo is even less effective now that Cuba is so deeply intertwined economically and politically with Venezuela and other countries in the region. Embargoing Cuba without cutting off its ties to other countries is akin to staging an embargo against Portugal that ignores...