Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dim & Desperate." Prouty, 59, a flinty, former small-town mayor from upstate Vermont, has been trying for years to get his pet project passed into law. Last week, armed with an impressive array of statistics and endorsements for his amendment, he argued that many retired citizens-notably schoolteachers, farmers and policemen-are in desperate financial straits because they never qualified for social security. "The poverty program," he said, "benefits 50,000 young people in the prime of life. The Prouty amendment benefits 1.5 million older Americans in their dim and often desperate years...
...result of the Ivies' boycott of NCAA tournaments, Clarkson and B.U. will represent the East against the West's top two teams out in Minnesota regardless of the ECAC outcome. But wins by Brown and Cornell would reduce the East's entrants to the status of also-rans and dim the lustre of the NCAA finals...
...younger alumni will get to know their elders any better in the five years after commencement than they did before--that a member of the Class of '66 will know the Class of '40 any better any better in 1971 than now. The passage of time will only dim his memory, cloud his recollection of passing acquaintances and faces, so that the name of his classmate down the hall in his House, appearing on the ballot, will elicit an apologetic: "Oh yes, don't remember exactly who he is but guess he was a good...
...fact that he has a nonidentical twin brother-Waldo, a thin, superior fellow who spends 50 years working in public libraries around Sydney. Waldo is the intellectual type, so superior in fact that he does not deign to confide his thoughts to anyone, least of all to his dim twin. The thoughts, anyhow, are nothing much, but when Waldo retires, he will maybe get around to collating notes for his novel-Tiresias as a Youngish Man-which he keeps in mum's old dress box. Tiresias was the shaman of Thebes, who had a prophetic gift as well...
...other hand, the Administration is pursuing the second policy objective -- forcing Hanoi to the table with military strength in the hopes of negotiating a Saigon-dominated coalition government--the costs will be nearly as unthinkable and the prospects for success equally dim. Underlying this strategy is the assumption that Hanoi offered no response to the peace offensive because of their superior position in the South; the United States must change the military balance of power in its favor to bring about negotiations...