Word: diring
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...need for "guidance" is very great, but Mr. Wolff's solicitude, if not suspect, is at least superficial. His attempt to muscle in on an educational policy already started by the University would amount to impertinence, were not his profession in such dire need of an apologist...
...five hundred dollar horn, and otherwise makes himself knows is a really large headache, Nobody has any kick about the so-called "jitterbug" or shag dancing. A swing musician would have an awfully hard time justifying the sort of thing he plays and at the same time muttering dire things about the last moving shaggers. They have just reviewer prefers to do his track work outdoors, but that is pure laziness, son, pure laziness. I have but one criticism of the dancing "bugs" whom I have seen: they all ought to go up to the Savoy in New York...
Reasons for the British ooze of optimism were not hard to find. First, Britain will probably have a General Election this year. Business usually improves when governments talk peace. The European atmosphere, moreover, has been so full of dire warnings to totalitarian powers lately that many a British voter might easily have forgotten that the Prime Minister won his international fame as the Great Appeaser...
...exiles want to return to Spain. Stories of dire reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...
...dire day-March 6-on which many a European correspondent predicted war would come to Europe passed by early this week. No ultimatums were delivered, no troops marched (except in Spain), and the dictators even temporarily ceased barking for more land. Instead of being War Week, no week in months had been so generally peaceful in Europe...