Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smirka" said the swarthy costumer. We looked puzzled until his clowning Danish assistant brought fourth tubes of make-up. After a few vain efforts which had to be corrected in the dim light of the wings, we descended once again to the stage, this time feeling more properly a part of the bustling company...
Amid the cheers of Democrats, many of whom took a dim view of him two years ago because he seemed overambitious, fiery Foster Furcolo, 45, stormed back to center stage in Massachusetts politics last week. Everybody had expected Ex-Congressman (1949-52) Furcolo to win nomination as the party's candidate for governor, but nobody had expected a landslide. Furcolo, running strongly in nearly every precinct in the state, won going away with 357,409 votes, to only 131,875 for his primary opponent, able former State Auditor Thomas H. Buckley. In a comparatively light vote, Furcolo...
...stepped-up spending "in every avenue of welfarism," and wondered "just how the 'new Republicanism' of the Eisenhower Administration differs from the Fair Deal-unless partisanship prompts the conclusion that the Democrats would be spending even more lavishly." New York's Daily Mirror took a dim view of the "strange bipartisan silence" over "the deep resentment among the people against high taxation...
Italy's government takes a dim view of any such move. Although the China trade could become more important, Rome realizes that it will never amount to more than a fraction of Italy's trade with the West. Said one Italian official last week: "The Communists could conceivably flog their people to death to get money for foreign purchases. But how long can a market of that sort last...
...News Fits ... In Chillicothe, Mo., while publicizing an auto safety inspection campaign, the daily Constitution-Tribune sent its office station wagon through the check line, got back a report: no emergency brake, faulty muffler, dim signal lights, missing taillight. badly adjusted foot brakes, two broken windows...