Word: dim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buffalo on Beacon. In the next ten years, Joaquin fought Indians, fathered three children and two slim, dim books of verse and spent most of his time boozing in "doggeries" (saloons) and pasting whisky ads in the family Bible. Fed up, Minnie left with the children, and on June 6, 1870, Joaquin sailed from Portland, Ore. for San Francisco and the life of letters. Blond locks aflow, Joaquin strode down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused...
...days, Italians from the North End would descend once a year upon the Square to crown Columbus with a wreath. Not to be out-done, the M.I.T. students, who had a club house at 6 Louisburg Square, trussed Aristides up in a cup and gown. The Association took a dim view of Aristides' garb. Now the green is fenced and only residents have keys to the gates...
Gloomy and forbidding vistas opened ahead of the shiny new Nash sedan as it followed the curves of U.S. Highway 101 up the Oregon coast. Dawn had just broken, the light was dim, and at Cape Foulweather, five miles north of Newport (pop. 3,250), the empty roadway sometimes seemed to be curving off into thin air beyond the cliffs...
...last week, though Mavis had left the Zulus, she had not yet found a haven in Malan's white South Africa. Officials took a dim view of Dr. Botha's "rescue" of the child. Said the local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis...
Another alarming aspect of the U.S. automotive scene, delegates agreed, is the increase in auto engine horsepower. Cried Dean A. Fales, onetime associate professor of automotive engineering at M.I.T.: "A race with death!" Fales, who has long taken a dim view of seats like sofas, slanting windshields and even the elimination of the running board, charged that the "power far exceeds maneuverability of the vehicles, with the result that there is lack of control [and] the accident rate goes up . . . The auto stylists or 'dressmakers' of the industry have been in the saddle since 1930. Engineers have...