Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when many Protestant church leaders retire, even past the recommended retirement age (75) that Pope Paul VI has set down for Roman Catholic bishops. But when he died last week of acute heart congestion at the age of 96, even his final years of feebleness could not dim the conviction that David O. McKay had done more in his 19-year tenure to change the image and direction of the Mormon Church than any president since Brigham Young himself...
...leave me in this dim light...
...chances that the Fedral government will find another tenant for NASA's Kendall Square Electronic Research Center appear to be dim...
...Like David Copperfield's Aunt Betsey Trotwood, all literary aunts should be brisk and, if possible, maiden. But to be really successful they must also have a dull, dim nephew as a foil. Also, it is the aunts' tragedy that their stories are invariably written by their dim nephews...
...paper presented to the American Economic Association. He argued that black-owned businesses tend to be small, precariously financed beauty parlors, food stores, and other personal-service or retail establishments catering to a poor market. Most of them owe their existence largely to residential segregation, said Brimmer. Negroes have dim prospects of founding businesses that can compete with white-owned establishments for a broader market, he said, and even in serving Negroes they will have increasing trouble competing with national firms that are showing a new interest in the Negro consumer...