Word: direst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered its second year, it was fought, at last, as it was originally pictured by its direst prophets, in a vast three-dimensional battlefield-over some 1,000,000 square miles of land and sea, in some 5,000,000 cubic miles of western Europe's air space. In twelva months the Germans claimed to have destroyed 6,950 enemy aircraft while losing 1,050 of their own, to have dropped 5,000,000 bombs. The British said Germany had lost 3,945 planes in a year, to 1,012 British. Last week the Russian Army's official...
...ministerial barrage of counter-citation. His critics charged: 1) that "you can prove anything you want to prove by the Bible"; 2) that he had plucked his texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...
Italy's forces in Libya under fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who succeeded Italo Balbo when the latter was killed, could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added...
...British system is now apparent. The realities must be faced. The entire manufacturing plan will have to be overhauled and revised to mesh with American industry. We can thank God for the industrial power and the growing active support of the United States in the hour of direst need...
...John Buchan's adventure stories, the brave and resourceful young Englishman so regularly and so thrillingly came through in the face of the direst subversive influences-and Author Buchan so obviously believed that he could and should-that to his Empire audience he and his heroes came to have a sort of Empire symbolism all their own. Coupled with his yeoman political and patriotic services, this gave Buchan a place on the list of Britain's public patriots not far down the line from Winston Churchill. As well indicated by their hearty welcome to George VI last summer...