Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baby (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Crooner Sinatra, who has been in need of a hit record for years, turns up in a socko mood that might turn the trick, "dim clam cleanup the rim ram room," shouts Frankie, " 'cause your bim bam baby's comin' home tonight...
...night last week, tearful women keeping vigil outside the presidential residence in Buenos Aires saw what they were watching for: a dim light in a second-floor room snapped out. Inside the darkened chamber, President Juan Perón walked away from the bedside of his wife. To waiting cabinet ministers he said, heavily, "Evita is dead...
...lanterns that shone in the dim dawn of Japanese history were globefish-gutted, puffed, dried, and filled with live fireflies. The lanterns that pleased Hirohito's grandfather, and have been a delight ever since, are more complex. They are designed to transform candlelight into globes of muted color. Each one requires up to 120 bamboo strips, no thicker than toothpicks, which are bound together with silk threads to make a collapsible frame. The frame is covered with eight sections of silk or oiled paper, painted with traditional figures. Gluing the shell to the frame is the hardest part...
...kick off their wrappings, and his intoxication with the grandeur of Rome. Not a philosopher of history in the vein of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, but a true son of the Age of Reason, Gibbon blamed Rome's downfall on the "triumph of barbarism and religion."* His dim view of Christianity shocked his own and successive generations...
...Pensioners. Such strange, dim little stars have long fascinated astronomers. Some believe that dwarfs are the source of the radio waves that beat on the earth from points in space that are apparently empty. One theory holds that they are senile stars which have expended most of their energy, turning into "degenerate matter." They are now living economically, like old people on pensions, but at last their feeble light will die. Then they will turn into "black dwarfs," cruising invisibly through space...