Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...
...woman started down the steps. The crowd was thick around her. The lights were dim. She missed her footing. To save her baby from a fall, she clutched at the man in front of her. He was old and fell forward and knocked two over. They went down clawing and pulled others with them. Humanity cascaded on the stairs...
...will be ale to complain of the monotony. There have been, in the past, moments of impatience when we wished we could turn the clock ahead, but as the time for departure approaches, there are many more moments when twinges of--panic seize hold. Once in the dim civilian past we had doubts about living, eating, and working with sixty-four others in constant attendance; all that is gone--today we have much more alarming doubts about living and working without the sixty-four around! We'll have to go looking for new people to tell our troubles...
...just at nightfall. The news spread that foreigners had appeared and quite a good size crowd quickly collected around the door. I shall never forget the scene. Numerous relatives of all ages were sitting around on the floor, which was covered with matting that was immaculately clean. In the dim light of some sort of lamp it was possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner...
...grasped the nearest solid object to heave himself up. With a groan the table collapsed, spilling comment books about him. That was the last straw. The paper should wait. Vag groped for the comment book, and propping himself securely in the corner, started at the pages by the dim light of his last match...