Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the intermission as time slipped away, and both Harvard's hopes of winning and the light became gradually dimmer, a familiar figure stepped out of the shadows to save the Crimson's day. Yes, indeed, Sue St. Louis struck, and struck again, scoring two goals in a five-minute period that sealed the game's outcome...
Alas for Paisley, his chances now seem dimmer than ever. On the first day of the strike, 30% of Protestant workers in Belfast stayed away from their jobs; by the third day, the absentees had dropped to 10%. Employers and trade union leaders agreed with Mason that a prolonged strike could only bring deeper recession to the province, where one worker in ten is already unemployed. At week's end the electric power workers, who could have paralyzed most of Northern Ireland's industry, announced they had voted to stay...
...prospect of gaining a SALT II arms agreement with the Russians is growing dimmer-although Kissinger was able to announce some good news last week, revealing that the Soviets had accepted in principle an accord providing for on-site inspection of peaceful nuclear explosions. But the hard bargaining to work out the final agreement remains to be done. (Asked if he was going anywhere to sign the accord, Kissinger quipped, "The desire to get me out of town is overwhelming...
Apparently, the greater a star's candle power, the dimmer the biographer need be. As proof, see Donald Zee's Sophia (McKay; $8.95). By now, Sophia Loren's ascent from the rubble of Naples to the gold of Carlo Ponti should be as familiar as the tale of the princess and the frog. But to Zec, a British journalist, each incident, each phrase, is worthy of a marble bas-relief: " 'Sometimes I felt I wasn't having the baby for Carlo; I was having it for the world,' smiled Sophia." After such reportage...
...active "preps" of transfer factor during the next three months. They are still working to get a positive "take," though they have met with no success and have moved the focus of their research elsewhere. The chances of vindicating Rosenfeld and justifying two years of work grow dimmer...