Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made anywhere because the enemy is ducking battle. Unless more U.S. combat troops are thrown into the hunt, or a different strategy of utilizing their present strength is found, the gains from the undeniable American and South Vietnamese progress of the past 18 months may flag. That might dim the hopes for a spreading pacification effort and the fledgling process of nation building, which could, if all goes well, get a powerful stimulus from the coming September presidential elections. The agony of the Viet Nam equation is that for the enemy, simply not to lose is, in a measure...
...book traces the development of the team from their first silent two-reeler, Putting Pants on Philip (1927)-a fast-paced trifle with elements of homosexual humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie's blushing "tie twiddle" and exasperated slow burn and Stan's tearless, whimpering crying jag and flip-flopping walk (which he achieved by cutting the soles off his shoes). For some reason, women do not appreciate...
...added that the propects for accomplishing something were "pretty dim...
Republican Barry Goldwater, for one, took a dim view of Wallace's machinations. "Wallace can elect Johnson more than anything you can think of," said Barry at a California meeting of businessmen. He pegged the G.O.P.'s 1968 presidential chances at "less than fifty-fifty": Wallace's candidacy would cut deeply into the votes for a moderate Republican, especially in the South...
...contemporary Western culture-technology, medicine, literature, TV, the H-bomb-show an exercise of the mind no more commendable or admirable than the savage's totems and bone beads. Today's philosophies reflect no more brilliant a light than mankind's earliest brainstorms in the dim dawntime of thought...