Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a more relaxed grip would aid him as well. "But you're not in the right area. And you have a camera. Have you been taking any derogatory pictures?" Mr. Campbell asked. The tourist hadn't taken any pictures at all, much less any that would cast a dim light on the "world's most modern cigarette manufacturing center," and he told Mr. Campbell this. "I know you haven't taken any. I've been watching you. Now get the hell out of here," was his reply, and the tourist was shoved in the direction of his automobile. This...
Based on their performances in last month's NCAA championships, the men of Longhorn Aquatics Swim Team (LAST) would also look to be pushing for top honors in their division, but key absences are going to dim their chances as well. Clay Britt, the reigning NCAA champion in the 100-yd. backstroke, will definitely not be here this week. Also notably absent will be Scott Spann, who has been invited to travel with a team to South Africa. Other outstanding Longhorn men such as Kris Kirchner, Nick Nevid, and William Paulus will probably swim, but their status is not definite...
Ordinarily, conversation stops when a curtain goes up. But there is nothing ordinary about the current revival of The Little Foxes, and when the lights dim, audiences begin to buzz, like crickets waiting for dusk. "Where is she? How does she look? Has she lost weight?" Only when she has been onstage for five or ten minutes, do the whispers stop and the answers become clear: in her first stage role, Elizabeth Taylor looks beautiful, gorgeous, radiant. In a word, sensational. "I'm on a high," she admits. "I have a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of doing something...
...YOUNGER EMPLOYEES come and go, the store's senior workers stay on at their assigned tasks, most of them resigned to their low wages and dim prospects for advancement by the poor chances of finding jobs elsewhere in the area's strickened job market. Meanwhile, the Coop goes on selling its books and clothes, pens, pencils and vast assortment of Harvard paraphernalia. But a storm of dissent recently blew through this garden of profitability, when local 1445 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) reported that more than half of the employees at the Coop's six branches...
This play begins in a death chamber. Gray, broody castle walls define the prison cell. In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift. It is Mary Stuart, pretender to the English throne, and the velvet-covered block on which she sits will soon receive her severed head...