Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dim. One woman in particular who does not share the desire for equal status is Phyllis Schlafly, founder and prime mover of Stop ERA. The wife of a wealthy lawyer in Alton, Ill., and the mother of six children, Mrs. Schlafly first came to public attention in the 1960s with a right-wing treatise in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy, A Choice Not an Echo, and stayed there with a fiery monthly newsletter named The Schlafly Report (cost: $5 per year). With no lack of capital (she insists that her effort is financed from the proceeds...
...eruptions continued to blast new craters in the earth throughout the week, prospects that the islanders could return any time soon looked dim. Geologists said that there was a possibility that the island - which is only 2½ miles wide by 4½ miles long-could explode and disappear entirely. Another possibility is that it may be covered by poisonous ash, which on some streets has already reached the tops of telephone poles...
...come in, I laugh at the seats. I laugh at the ushers. The house lights dim, I laugh at the darkness. I laugh at the sets and costumes. By the time I hear the lines I'm already weak, a total setup for your gags...
...plan's viability. Bernice Cronkite, the woman who raised most of the original funds for the Center, has stated a desire to preserve the building for use by graduate students. While it is not clear that Cronkite has issued a definite "no," hopes for Plan I currently seem dim...
...Brahms, Furtwängler could be infuriatingly eccentric. When he was conducting Wagner, though, his stately, expansive, analytic style produced performances that were ingeniously congruent with the composer's convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced but high-keyed contrast to excellent latter-day sets by Solti and Karajan...