Word: direst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife Millie (Barbara Barrie) is on her way up to the suite. What follows is a kind of Feydeau farce with one bedroom door. The scene has been directed with dazzling adroitness by Gene Saks, and Jack Weston's portray al of a human pachyderm in direst panic would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Zero Mostel...
Cherished institutions may become shaky and old heroes tarnished, but Americans have always kept their faith in-and looked up to-doctors. Now, however, many people are worried that doctors may refuse to treat them except in direst emergencies. The reason: the soaring cost of malpractice insurance, which the nation's 300,000 physicians must carry in order to stay in practice. The result is that doctors, who feel their incomes jeopardized, have become rebellious. Patients, who see their access to treatment threatened, are increasingly anxious. State legislators, who must satisfy both groups, are bewildered...
...Administration. Observes TIME Economic Correspondent John Berry: "Every committee is behaving as if it thinks that its program is the only one that stands between the American public and total economic disaster." The result has been the introduction of scores of bills, ranging from increased Social Security benefits to Direst...
...puff of smoke. Since Brezhnev vanished from public view on Dec. 24, he has been widely reported to be medically and politically moribund. Some Kremlinologists predicted that if he failed to greet Wilson, who was making his first state visit to Moscow in seven years, that would confirm the direst of long-distance diagnoses. On the eve of the British Prime Minister's visit, the respected Paris daily Le Monde cited "informed Soviet sources" as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a "brutal" relapse from cancer, or, alternatively, cardiovascular disease. Other sources speculated that the party chief had lost...
...possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve disintegrates in guilt, who seizes her crucifix like a dagger, spits venomously on its tip, and invokes the spirits of night to fill her with direst cruelty...