Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risks, Kennedy's decision makes sense in purely personal terms. His chances in '68 may be dim, but what with the strong possibility of a Republican President next year, '72 looks even dimmer. The man who beats Johnson--call him President Nixon--would likely remain in office for eight years, sustained by a period of post-war reaction and by the dictates of political fashion. By '76 Kennedy could be nearly as anachronistic as Harold Stassen in the current campaign...
...Much Optimism? There are of course businessmen and economists who take a dimmer view. "I don't see the consumer as any more confident," insists Retailer Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Stores. "His real income is not rising. He's worried about layoffs, prices, taxes, high interest rates and the course of the war." Federal Reserve Board Governor Dewey Daane says bluntly: "The current optimism has gone...
...more Schmidt calculated, the more problems he raised. Even a very bright galaxy consisting of billions of stars would be much dimmer at this distance, but starlike 3C 273 can be seen easily with a 6-in. telescope. Clearly, more study was needed...
...history's losers more fondly than the luckier or more competent heroes who beat them. But nothing like this Joan of Arc or Mary Queen of Scots effect has occurred in the case of Jefferson Davis. The public memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers is satisfied in this historical instance...
...sizable new segment of voters. Everybody remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...