Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view is there. And the best of it is the dim understanding that comes to Lee and the townspeople: they can't stand for Stamper to win, but they feel cheated and confused when he begins to lose. But Kesey understands that intolerable as a good man may be to men and gods, his defeat is even more so. Perhaps in that paradox is the twisted tragedy...
That left only one remaining cotton futures exchange-the New York exchange, whose business has dwindled from 33 million bales in 1953 to 928,000 in 1963. Its leaders are negotiating with the Agriculture Department in hopes of finding a way to survive, but prospects are dim. The subsidy system has achieved stability for the nation's No. 1 fiber, but the cost in money and market freedom is high...
Spellman is now a trifle slow of step and dim of sight, and he yearns to be remembered not as the good builder but as a good shepherd. His greatest consolation, he says, has been his annual Christmastide visits to the troops overseas, "which gave me a chance to do something pastoral. That has always been my ideal-to be close to the people. That is what the church has always done and always should...
...moved out of the Parkway Header and into the dim passage ahead. At once, the air became quite chilly, and the Tunnel began to climb upwards. "We're approaching the bridge," said the guide, "and we've got three tight squeezes ahead of us." (The Weeks Bridge, we recalled, has three arches; at the top of each, the Tunnel can only be about a yard high.) "Actually, we ourselves don't much use this passage," he went on, as we climbed up the steep curve of the first arch. "When we want to come over to the Business School...
...hotly disputed by Bonn. An even thornier question is how to divide mineral rights between Germany and Holland, as well as among Denmark, Norway and Great Britain, all of whom front on the North Sea. Hope that these five nations could deal objectively with the issue looks dim. "It seems to us that countries that in past ages have had only trouble from the sea," said Rotterdam's Algemeen Dagblad, "now should be allowed to have full profits from that sea." With similar reactions echoing through other capitals, the signs were for a hot and disputatious summer along...