Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...
Author Horgan begins in the dim past before recorded history, with a graceful account of primitive Indian existence. He believes that "they solved with restraint and beauty the problem of modest physical union with their mighty surroundings." At this distance in time he sees them as living "like figures in a dream, waiting to be awakened...
Hippo minded as St. Louis may be, the outlook for another animal in Boston is very dim. Happy passed from the municipal scene with hardly a ripple--quite a feat for a hippo. Now that he is gone, no one doubts he was a good hippopotamus, but nobody wants another. Several years ago, Mayor Hines, his eye on the hay bill, vetoed the idea of another hippo--not out of fondness for Happy--but because the breed ate too much. Only among his old friends, the Franklin Park keepers, is Happy still remembered as, "The Hippopotamus." As one keeper said...
...sided inspection of the stresses in the imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...
...started with the notion of "painting a Negro being tried by a bunch of whites. Later," he explains, "the Negro dropped out of it, leaving just the judge, lofty and bespectacled, a record, a dignified bunch of lawyers and some unimportant guy in the box." With these few dim figures, around a judge's bench, Levine brilliantly evokes an air of weirness and worry, weighted with wiles and latent threat...