Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a towered, castlelike hideaway across the Lake of Zurich, where he does his own cooking, and diverts himself by chopping wood and carving esoteric inscriptions on large blocks of granite. Jung has long since given up his psychiatric practice, and now devotes his working hours to exploring the dim boundaries where science meets the irrational...
With these results to consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...
week over the Korean situation, an exasperation which most often took the form of blaming it all on the U.S. Like the run of the U.S. press, British papers took a dim view of Syngman Rhee's antics and of the Koje mess. "Rarely, if ever," said London's News Chronicle of Koje, "can American Army authorities have suffered so great a humiliation." Sedater journals, as they usually do, got in their licks by gently reminding their readers that the British, alas, need their impulsive U.S. friends. The leader of Britain's Socialists felt a like impulse...
...what happens when an honest cop tries to take a star witness, widow of a notorious Capone-like character, to the coast to testify before the Grand Jury. Naturally, the boys in Chi would rather this moll didn't live to sing. But uncorruptible and battling, if a little dim-witted, the forces of virtue and justice...
From an Airplane, Dimly. Other inversions produce other kinds of saucers. Sometimes a warm layer hangs several thousand feet up (see diagram). Often the layer contains dust, which increases its power to divert light. If an airplane is flying just above this layer, the pilot may see the dim displaced image of the sun, the moon or a high, brightly lighted cloud. The image will appear below him; it may be distorted, magnified, or in rapid motion. If the inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects...