"Dire straits" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... restore purchasing power by reducing the debt and interest charges upon our people, but while we were helping people to save their credit it was at the same time absolutely essential to do something about the physical needs of hundreds of thousands who were in dire straits at that very moment. Municipal and state aid were being stretched to the limit. We appropriated half a billion dollars to supplement their efforts and in addition, as you know, we have put 300,000 young men into practical ...
— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
... School with a season's record of one tied game and a long tally of victories, seemed now in dire straits. ...
— The High School Pitcher - Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond • H. Irving Hancock
... being without it. Thus, airily to pass judgment upon men and women as to their doings in getting money for necessaries, for what the compulsion of custom and habit has made necessaries to them—airily to judge them for their doings in such dire straits is like sitting calmly on shore and criticizing the conduct of passengers and sailors in a storm-beset sinking ship. It is one of the favorite pastimes of the comfortable classes; it makes an excellent impression as to one's virtue upon one's ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... artillery instruments and pioneer tools. While running for Boston Harbor, through the channel known as Point Shirley gut, the vessel grounded, but was soon floated, and taken safely to her anchorage. Her arrival was most timely, as the American army was in the most dire straits for gunpowder. It may well be imagined that there was no longer any talk about revoking Capt. ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... though you are in such dire straits. And I do not intend that you shall go back to London to brood over your misfortune. Keep a stout heart, dear, and something may turn up after all," she added, as they turned and went slowly back over the rustling leaves ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux |
