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Word: dimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibilities" to society, which directly influence editorial policy. An editor, therefore, would not wish to oppose the government strongly--it could cost him his job. "But is this so different from your system?" Stular asked. If a U.S. editor strongly disagrees with his publisher, his employment future is also dim...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Yugoslav Editor claims Country Develops New Type of Freedom | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Your claim that "the pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor 'made a fortune amputating little toes" [Nov. 10] is a ridiculous fabrication. How dim-witted do you think your readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Their production of Genet's Deathwatch is no main event. The prison in which the play is set is suggested so stingily by a few black and white stripes that it looks like a mutated peppermint stick. A fishing net hangs inexplicably above the stage, and the lighting is dim and obscure. Someone apparently forgot that people pay their money to see something, and deserve more than arty darkness...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Deathwatch | 10/16/1961 | See Source »

...couldn't care less about whether there is room at the top. He is a vague and vagrant first person singular who drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of existential anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harry & Leckie | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...CRIMSON immediately received about 1000 coupons from gullible women throughout the country. Post Office officials, aware of the stunt by the increased mail volume, originally took a dim view of it but later agreed--at the CRIMSON'S suggestion--to forward all "Reduce-a-Leg" mail to the Lampoon...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Lampoon Parody of 'Mademoiselle' Sells Entire July Issue of 600,000 | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

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