Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anguished wails from Crimson coach Bill McCurdy led everyone to believe that last night's meet with Holy Cross in the Snake Pit was going to be the end of the varsity's undefeated string. It almost was, but a tremendous rally by the Crimson as the last dim spark of hope was about to be extinguished produced a thoroughly stirring 82-27 victory...
With the main diesel out, a small emergency generator provided a little heat and electricity. But soon the terrible cold outside struck into the dim-lit quarters. Burning diesel oil in improvised stoves was out of the question. Used in this inefficient way, the supply would not have lasted until help arrived. The best-and probably the only-chance for Vostok was to get the main diesel running again so its generous heat could beat back the cold...
Twilight of a Virger. The present undergraduates, Novelist Sheed deposes, are a dim lot, meanly concerned with security and job worthiness, impervious to general ideas, irreligious but without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...most difficult and most challenging task was making the United States Olympic team. Things looked dim when he finished third in the indoor AAU's, and failed even to qualify in the outdoor finals. As a collegiate swimmer during the season, he faced the problem of converting to long-course swimming in 50-meter long pools, with two less turns per 100 meters...