Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salisbury had brought into the open a deeply felt split among the Tories. His is the voice of the past, but it could do damage to Harold Macmillan in the present, and it undoubtedly did something to dim the future luster of Iain Macleod...
Crimson coach Bill Brooks threw everything he had into the opening relay in the dim hope of an upset victory over a Yale medley team that had already swum more than a second faster than the Harvard pool record...
...student locked up his treasured 150-watt spotlights from the maintenance boys; another remarked, "It's going to be pretty dim up here." No one was sure just where in the hierarchy the order to change bulbs originated...
...West would not support [local build-up of conventional forces]. But no one can know, for the issue has never been presented to it. If the democracies cannot muster a leadership willing to stake its political future on a program essential to survival, its political future is dim indeed...
Kept out of military service by dim eyesight (20/100 in one eye, 20/200 in the other). Heller spent the war years in the Treasury Department in Washington, working on the massive wartime increases in taxes. After the war, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. But he sallied out at various times to serve as a financial adviser to U.S. Military Governor Lucius Clay in occupied Germany (1947-48), financial adviser to the U.N., a member of the Treasury team that worked out Korean war tax increases, fiscal adviser to Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman (Secretary...