Word: diring
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...dire warnings of some street-corner Cassandra? No, just a list of coming attractions at U.S. movie theaters, as the industry enters a cycle of disaster. At least seven such films are scheduled for release before Christmas, and another six are in the planning stage. For the moviegoer, at least, the Apocalypse is at hand...
...Patty has been killed, and the bank robber was an impostor. There is no evidence to support this dire supposition. It arose apparently because the bank photographs released by the FBI and published in the press are slightly out of focus, making it hard to identify her positively. But the FBI had access to all the bank photographs, and it is certain that the woman was Patty?a conclusion accepted by her parents...
...Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...
When the British economy entered into its present difficulties, Heath found himself in dire political straits. Once the miners announced their intention to strike, he had no choice but to dissolve parliament and call for new elections--the first in Britain since 1970. What with oil shortages, I.R.A. terror bombings in London and the reduced coal production, Britons had a pretty dreary Christmas this year. Heath tried to inspire the electorate with speeches reminiscent of Churchill's inflated World War II rhetoric, but only with the barest success. The coal miners's strike now threatens England with a depression unparalleled...
...yesterdays were not an American dream. There were times when they verged upon nightmare. The children of the privileged, then as now, were surrounded by space and leisure and material goods. But the rest of the youthful nation struggled with rigid doctrines and dire economics. The status of children of the past was, in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that of "Foreigners. We treat them as such...