Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background. I moved aside as a young couple, the boy dressed in tight dungarees and wearing sunglasses, the girl in hot pants and a blouse with puffed sleeves, left their table and walked to the door, waving to their friends. After my eyes had adjusted to the dim light, I saw my friends sitting at a table near the back corner. I was late, and, having decided not to wait for me, they were already on their dessert. I sat down next to the Englishmen, who was halfway through his banana split. Opposite him was a German who looked...
Things may be looking up for the Harvard varsity wrestling squad. At least, the future is not as dim as many think...
...which many fertilizers are made, have shrunk along with those of fuel. Speaking of a key fertilizer known as anhydrous ammonia, Warren Dewlen, chairman of the Fertilizer Institute, says: "Inventories are only half of what they should be at this time, and the outlook for improving the situation is dim." Some farm experts believe that the lack of fertilizers alone could cut crop yields by as much as 20%, worsening the shortage crunch in raw agricultural products...
...Cutler was born into a family of rabbis. While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer...
More important for Americans are the clues Kieu provides to Vietnamese attitudes. Like the heroine of the poem, a great many Vietnamese today believe that they are being punished for some collective sin committed in the dim past. The Tale of Kieu holds out hope that virtue will be rewarded, that free will can alter a person's karma. But it is a slim hope for a people who have known centuries of war and endured a series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul...