Word: dim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forecastle the observers huddled, backs to the wind, facing her towering superstructure. Off to starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...
...Girl With the Stoop: A sinister young cripple tries to entoil a dim town girl...
...years of war and sweeping change have given the U.S. a new cast of characters, still undefined, appearing on new stages, still barely seen. There are the army officers and admirals whose names are becoming familiar; the army camps and airfields that are still dim and a little disquieting to citizens. In its war issue, FORTUNE appraises the U.S. war effort from the point of view of editors to whom the new scenes are familiar, the new faces long known. And the net of their appraisal is that the U.S. is not succeeding in the task of organizing itself...
Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...levels, with a balcony overhead for patients with delusions of grandeur. There are no curtains or scenery, only two pillars in the background, a bare table and chairs. Floodlights of three different intensities play on the stage, corresponding to the patient's mood: soft white, red for excitement, dim blue for soliloquies...