Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, has been negotiating with Henry Kissinger '50 the possibility of his appointment to a chair in the Department of Political Science. Since the appointment has moved recently from the realm of secrecy and rumor to the relative daylight (the light of openness at Columbia is pretty dim), opposition in the university community has taken firm root and grown...
...progression from her first husband, Warren, who is domineering, yet charming and from whom she can never entirely escape, to Leonard, the wealthy lawyer of radical causes, who much more subtly and sympathetically manipulates her, and finally to Boca Grande. This, a banana republic which Charlotte felt, in some dim way, was the "cervix of the world" through which her child, lost of history, would also pass...
Nonetheless, legislators are likely to take a dim view of the report. Saturday mail delivery in particular is a great favorite of many Congressmen. So, the commission added one more estimate to its findings: if its recommendations are buried, as they may well be, the cost of a first-class stamp by 1985 will rise not just...
John Kennedy used to believe that what he had learned at his father's breakfast table made him an expert in international affairs. The memories of his graduate course during the first nine months of 1961 have, unfortunately, grown too dim in Washington. The Russians sent a man into space before we did and began to test the monster nuclear weapons that nobody thought they had. Our planes in the Berlin air corridor were buzzed; the autobahns were blocked. Insurgents consumed large chunks of Laos. The Bay of Pigs adventure was a disaster. Nikita Khrushchev pounded the table...
...Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could no longer hold under Oregon law, having completed his second term in office...