Word: dimly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stupid to Worry. If so, the warning was wasted. Too dim-witted to be alarmed, the waterborne Belchen paid no attention to the eager marksmen closing in for the kill. At a range of less than 20 yds., the hunters opened fire. The few Belchen that tried to escape were blasted out of the sky or cut down before they could finish their flailing, loonlike takeoff. The rest of the birds were slaughtered where they sat. Boat oars were used to administer the coup de grâce. Explained one hunter: "If we waited for them to get into...
...companies") are as risky as they were in the days of the '49 Gold Rush. "While undoubtedly the great majority of issuers of listed stocks are sound business enterprises," noted SEC, "the Exchange has appeared reluctant to suspend or de-list issues whose future prospects have proved dim...
...incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain, and patches together an opulent tapestry of medieval legend. In its final moment, the film rises to a vision of chilling weirdness as El Cid. strapped dead to his great white steed Babieca, looms above the field of his last dim battle and, scattering the heathen like smoke before the gale of destiny, rides thundering into Aceldama and the ages...
...night, the wide boulevards of Peking are dim and ghostly; because of the shortage of electric power, only one in every nine street lamps is lit. Two years ago, Chinese in Hong Kong shipped 870,000 food parcels annually to their relatives in China. This year, in answer to desperate appeals, they have already shipped 9,000,000. Refugees stream into Hong Kong and Macao, escaping any way they can. To avoid feeding those unable to work, Red China is now giving exit visas to the aged and infirm. One Hong Kong resident had gone to China in 1958 because...
...picture, faithful generally to the play, tells the story of a small-town prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...