Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the outcome, it is plain that the faint hopes for peace in the Middle East were dimmer than ever...
After several trips, Tommy had taken everything up to the road. Now the room was almost totally dark. We had found some tiny holes in the wooden ceiling, and it turned out that these holes were lights controlled by a dimmer near the door. We turned them on, and pools of pale light fell on the flagstone floor. No one spoke; everyone stared out the glass doors or at the floor or at nowhere in particular...
Brown's hopes for victory, however meager, became dimmer as the powerful Crimson heavyweights prepared to wrestle. Chatterton, still undefeated, disposed of Dave Gottert, 14-4, nearly pinning him. This convincing win demonstrated Chatterton's improvement--last year Chattertson battled to a 3-2 decision over Gottert...
...then have the difficult job of selling them on Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration...
Inevitably, the outcome of the 1968 elections put the political futures of all the men involved into new perspectives and new lights-some brighter, some dimmer. Besides the Nixon-Agnew victory, what may prove to be a major factor in many careers is the surprisingly good showing of Hubert Humphrey...