Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might well change their minds by next summer, especially if they listen to the men of vision on the Riviera who are talking excitedly of building artificial islands off the Côte d'Azur, inaugurating helicopter service, and even of building Plexiglas tunnels to newer, better and dimmer cellars...
...President's intimates, including his son-in-law and two of his brothers, had engaged in large-scale influence peddling. If General Vargas used the army to enforce an honest election-as he had done in two previous elections-the Nacionalista Party's prospects might be dimmer...
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...critical technique is one of exposing through quotation. Using this technique, the critic must be careful that the words he quotes actually appear in the work he attacks, and are not drawn from obscure slots in the CRIMSON files or from even dimmer recesses in the Cambridge collective unconscious ("other-directed," "sibling rivalry," "residual bitterness," "bubble gum," etc.). In Mr. A.'s review many words are enclosed by quotation marks, but few of these words may be found enclosed within the covers of our magazine. By giving us credit for sentences which pour out of his own head or somewhere...
...prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement at Geneva become progressively brighter (and sporadically dimmer), it seems apparent that Western negotiators, hastening to score a propaganda victory and, possibly, contribute to a healthier world, have overlooked a vital point in the mechanics of a moratorium. Under the partial draft treaty, as it now reads, all testing will stop, even those explosions which may be necessary for the continuation of experiments in the peaceful application of atomic energy...