Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days out of seven, Floyd's grille in the basement of Cabot House's Barnard Hall just serves hamburgers and other snacks to undergraduates. But on Fridays, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., jazz music and dim lighting transform the spot into "Cookin' at the Grille," Harvard's first nightclub...
...remarked that "as far as man's high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, of promise which has been more than realized...
...moving target," Golding has written in a confessional essay describing his own pursuit by eager scholars). Tucker tracks his prey to a resort in the Swiss Alps and makes his pitch: "Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail that collapses. Pulled to safety by his nemesis, Barclay reluctantly admits: "It seems I owe you my life...
Just weeks ago, prospects for any agreement seemed dim. Meetings between White House aides and Democratic congressional leaders, in response to Reagan's call for a bipartisan effort to make a "down payment" on the deficit, came to nothing. The Democrats then started drafting their own plans to reduce the deficit. Some Republican Senators began doing the same, while insisting to Reagan that he would have to drop his unyielding opposition to defense cuts...
...there must have been 30,000 Germans out to hear this guy. I turned to the Archbishop and said, 'What's he got?' And then I said, 'Whatever it is, Jack had better get to know him.'" If memory is not too dim, Old Joe then said he had looked Graham up after the rally and suggested the reverend get together with his Senator son. Dutiful son that he was, J.F.K. did make it a point to cultivate the evangelist. Billy Graham and his like seem to have been edging nearer to the Oval Office...