Word: diring
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...loudspeakers of Egypt shrilled a voice, urgent, strident, and sharply reminiscent of the days in the early 1930s when another mustached zealot ranted and raved his way across the world stage. The decision of Egypt's 38-year-old President Nasser to seize the Suez Canal, his dire prophecy of an Arab empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic, his incitement to Algerians to rise up against the French-all these were summonses to the diplomats of Foggy Bottom and their opposite numbers in Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay to consider, consult...
...Orleans, Emile F. Wagner Jr., president of the Association of Catholic Laymen, organized to oppose integration, announced that under "dire threat of ex communication" from Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel the 30 directors of the association were halting their activities. They plan to send an appeal to Rome, said Wagner: "We are greatly alarmed at the casual way the matter of excommunication and mortal sin has been bandied about, and we greatly fear this has caused great confusion among Catholics...
...There was a time when reduced income on the farm would soon make itself sharply felt in the whole economy. In 1956, despite the fact that farm income fell for nearly five years, the rest of the economy is at the greatest level of prosperity in history. Despite the dire warnings of farm-state politicos about the danger of "farm-fed farm-led depression," the 1956 conclusion is inescapable: since the U.S. economy has grown and shifted more to the industrial and away from the agrarian, the farm economy is no longer as critical a factor...
Fighting bravely to retain their franchise, the moviemakers-in the person of a top M-G-M costume designer-had provided suitable wedding costumes, but everywhere the actors in the play were forgetting their lines and ad-libbing with dire results. Europe's reigning royalty, to a man, refused to show up at all. Hordes of jostled press photographers, miffed at having to wait for hours in the rain while luckier invited guests danced away the night at the famed International Sporting Club, openly booed and hissed the bridal pair when they at last appeared...
...Blandings, Carey Grant spends most of his time looking dire, and he is an old hand at it. Few actors, probably, have gotten as many laughs out of standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas, the old lawyer friend, are also old hands. Under such sure guidance, the movie grinds itself out at the Blandings bathroom mirror or in front of the Blandings building site...