Word: dimmed
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...deal with the nation's troubled economy. The series of eleven meetings with representatives of various segments of the economy will culminate in a two-day National Conference on Inflation in Washington, B.C., at week's end. Chances of achieving a broad-based consensus for action are dim. The continuing gulf between White House conservatives and their critics (who do not have many imaginative ideas either) was hardly narrowed last week when Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, drew boos and hisses after telling a gathering of union leaders and representatives of black, poor, aged...
...denizens of Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage for a while seem to be little more than the kind of dotty ménage à cinq that Wodehouse might assemble on a bilious day: Adela Bastable, a large, dim, goodhearted spinster; her brother Bernard, a retired brigadier with a bad leg; Shorty, once a quartermaster sergeant, now a friend and factotum; George Zeyer, a bedridden history professor (Bernard's brother-in-law); and Marigold Pyke, a faded beauty who cutely refers to drinks as "drinkle-pinkles" and English pounds as "poundies," thus driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly...
bank of the Rio Grande 27 years ago, his prospects looked dim indeed. He was a 14-year-old wetback from Guadalajara who had crossed the border illegally to earn money to help support his large and fatherless family in Mexico...
Objectionable as the game glut is as a phenomenon, there are a few bright -or at least less dim-spots on the schedule. The new Bill Cullen show, Winning Streak, is a kind of beardless Scrabble that becomes brain-busting when contestants try to make words of more than five letters with thousands of dollars in earlier winnings on the line. Split Second requires three participants to answer hard three-part questions. Concentration calls for the ability to do just that. The idea is to remember the prizes hidden behind numbers and match two of them to win the object...
...Italy, Author Luigi Barzini marveled at the way the U.S. has "survived bad Presidents, dim-witted Presidents, and Presidents who would have brought the country to ruin if they had had their way. It has survived the murders of a few good Presidents. It can survive the resignation of a dishonest one. In fact, the demonstration that 18th century laws could come to life and punish crimes committed at the highest levels of power has unproved the opinion the world has of the United States." There too Richard Nixon played his part...