Word: direst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters...
Clearly, despite hundreds of earlier tests on dogs, such daring surgical deeds are for use in only the direst cases, but Dr. Heimbecker expects to see more of them and to repeat his bold procedure...
...case, Steele hardly seemed to herald another Ice Age, which, according to the direst predictions, is not due for another 10,000 years. In fact, the glacier appeared to be tearing itself apart, and, in the view of McGill University Meteorologist Dr. Svenn Ortig, "is doomed. It will stop, stagnate, and in due time melt." No one, however, knew when or how long Steele would keep going in the meantime. Fortunately, it posed no immediate threat to human life. At week's end, as it crunched along in a vaguely northeasterly direction, the nearest town in its path...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
When 40 years of liquor rationing* ended in 1955, most Swedes laid in ample reserve stocks, vowing never to be caught short again. But there they were, with cupboards bare last week, amidst the direst shortage since the height of government controls...