Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become an established part of the local color. Moreover, in the past few years, a new tradition has sprung up. A committee of the Cambridge legislature dedicated itself to the problem and has been playing it for two years. But the inactive past of this group foretells dim hopes for future action...
...adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...
...most fundamental aspects of science, and not merely in science's applications to the problems of flight. Manufacturers are spending large amounts of money to investigate the basic properties of matter. Much of their work will find no application now, but will only pay dividends in the dim future when machines that fly will no longer be called aircraft but spacecraft...
...another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight and filled with suffocating sand...
...last three years by the zany comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...