Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
...glowing predictions I made a year ago were certainly wide of the mark," said Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel Co. "If I were a member of a big-league ball team, I would either be benched or sent back to the minors." The glowing predictions-and the dimmer actualities that followed-added up to a lesson. They made the U.S. see clearly that no matter what it had done, it was not enough. Employment stood at 67 mil lion in December, a record for the month, but unemployment rose to 4,250,000, which...
...ultimate fate of a white dwarf, says Dr. Luyten, is to grow slowly dimmer and smaller. After billions of years, its light will change from white to yellow, then to red. Eventually it will die, and the product will be a black dwarf: a cold sphere of degenerate matter weighing as much as the sun, but smaller than most planets and giving no light...