Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widening their markets. Three nations in East Africa have moved in this di rection by founding a nascent common market, and elsewhere there are the beginnings of cooperation in handling currency and passports. But if Africa's most populous nation can fall apart, the prospects for successful regionalism look dim indeed...
After six years as head of the nation's most complex state, California's Governor could hardly be faulted, as he was this year, for inexperience. By the same token, his luster might dim with so much exposure to some of the nation's most corrosive problems. In the meantime, whether Nixon wins or loses, Reagan will be a potent spokesman for conservatism, both in the party and in the country...
...intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle-and to all but his enthusiastic admirers he remains the dim background figure that second fiddlers are supposed...
When prospects are dark and hopes are dim...
...learns that her mother may have cancer. She has lunch with a bitchy girl friend from Montreal who tells her that one of her former husbands is a suicide. She and her present husband make love enjoyably (it is a fine touch that Mary thinks of men in dim and stereotyped terms, as if seen by a self-obsessed woman...