Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provides about $5 billion a year for federal roads. Under Volpe's plan, the Government would allow $1 billion of this to be spent on mass transit in 1974, $1.85 billion in fiscal 1975 and $2.25 billion in subsequent years. Chances of winning congressional approval this year appear dim, but it is important that the Nixon Administration is striving to spread the money around, and it seems inevitable that just that will be done some time in the future...
...after the meeting has dispersed, after the ball is over, and the sense of excitement and communion begins to dim, she climbs into her car, station wagon, Land Rover, bus, taxi-and goes home. And it hits her. She arrives home to pay the sitter or what-have-you, to take over the children, to keel the pot like greasy Joan, to put the kettle on like Polly, to take up the reins of her existence. Only -something is wrong...
...Left, meanwhile, George McGovern appears to have gained a great deal in these first two weeks. While his chances of taking the nomination are still dim, McGovern is now the leading candidate on the left side of the Democratic spectrum. Ignoring Florida, McGovern devoted almost all of his time to New Hampshire, achieving his impressive 37 per cent there. John Lindsay spent all of his time in Florida in hopes of the big vote which would launch his candidacy. He failed. Despite all the money he spent (estimates range upward from $300,000) he took 6 per cent, only narrowly...
...goes to the meeting with Chou Enlai. Then there is a banquet at night. While Americans watching on television get the idea that it is some kind of folk festival, it is not quite so hearty. The huge hall engulfs the guests, much like China itself. Nixon is a dim figure with Chou, nibbling at his shark's fin dish and supping his almond junket. Pat's red dress is a drop of warm blood in the gray...
...Harvard ski team will compete in its last major event of the year, the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association championships, this weekend at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. The prospects of a Crimson success, however, are dim...