Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal of all its troops by next June 30, Communist forces would not shoot at them on the way out. Their eight-point plan also referred for the first time to a formal cease-fire-but only after all political matters have been settled. The latter prospect is as dim as ever...
...fades like a dim dream from another world, Greg is beset, rather than comforted, by the ghosts of his earlier life. His journal becomes a kind of letter-in-a-bottle written to his mother, to his older brother, to all the girls he has known-an exercise in retrospection by a man distinctly not used...
...very dim-witted and narrow in America today that we can let only one issue occupy our minds at any one time? Isn't our policy of defoliating
...family confab, took his children's advice and came out for liberalized marijuana laws. (Last week the charges against Howie were dropped.) Something similar befell Oregon's Republican Governor Tom McCall, whose son Sam, now 20, has battled heroin addiction since the age of 15. McCall still takes a dim view of all drugs. But now he feels "charitable" toward draft resisters and recently blasted Oregonians for refusing to lower the voting age to 19. He called the refusal a "tremendous victory for the S.D.S." Until recently, Ohio's Republican Senator William B. Saxbe viewed most antiwar dissenters as "crazies...
...taken a dim view of certain on-campus political activities. At issue are plans that call for 1) coordinating student campaigners through campus centers (like those sponsored by the Princeton-based Movement for a New Congress), and 2) granting pre-election recesses to allow students and faculty to work in campaigns. After consulting the IRS, the American Council on Education has issued cautious guidelines. Colleges that lend a substantial portion of their facilities to groups backing specific candidates or legislation may compromise their legal status as educational institutions and forfeit their exemption from local property taxes and federal taxes...