Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then [9:21, exactly eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left] a muffled detonation and shattering glass! There were several hysterical screams. The force of the explosion hurled me against a table. A few seconds of silence and darkness; then in the dim light of a couple of bulbs which remained intact, I saw the first persons stagger through a door. They were covered with dust...
Middle Ear. Most common cause of dim hearing is middle-ear injury and scarring-caused in turn by violent nose-blowing, infection of the Eustachian tube or the heavy mastoid bone which bulges out behind the ear. Safest maxim for ear-picking children: "Nothing smaller than the elbow should ever be put into the ear." Mastoid infections occur most frequently in children under twelve, for their delicate membranes are not tough enough to withstand bacterial assault. Standard procedure for mastoid infections is surgical removal of wedges of the infected bone...
...Eastern Shore oystermen, fishermen, farmers, who track the muck of river bottoms into her dim-lit office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
...third team. Whether he will measure up in other departments is a most point, but it is quite clear that he can't replace Waldstein as a kicker. Nor can anyone else, and with the hopes of Waldstein being ready to play for any length of time rather dim, this dilemma may cause considerable trouble...
...When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder comes easy. Afterwards he slumps to a park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks he: "And you'll grow up, and you'll remember the soldier. . . . Your children will tell you that this soldier was a common murderer...