Word: diring
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...this dire emergency, Hitler appointed his tank expert, Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian, to take command of the whole Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical...
...Germans openly admitted the gravity of the uprising. They proclaimed a state of siege and dire punishment if armed revolt persisted. Theaters and cafes were closed, a curfew clamped on from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parisians were ordered to stay away from their windows at all times, to leave doors open at night (for easy search). Gatherings of more than three persons were verboten...
...have ever so publicly embodied desperation. He talked & talked as if he would talk away the hovering spectre of failure. He promised victory, threatened dire punishments to Germans who failed to respond to the crisis. He proclaimed total war as if it had never before been proclaimed on earth-not even after Stalingrad. The desperate measures he announced might stave off defeat for months. But to many, his threats must have seemed less like total war than total mobilization of the last broken cracker on the bottom of the barrel...
Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
...long as the Red Armies delayed an attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...