Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Deal. Prime Minister King's chances of reelection, at first dim, were suddenly looking up. There was a reason, involving politically potent Quebec, without whose votes a party can scarcely hope...
Harrison Irving, the Trumans' Negro yardman, took a dim view of the whole business. "I'm the nervous type," he confided. "I ain't never been in any of this big time stuff before. I'm going to be plumb scared to death by them secret-service...
...were divided on the wisdom of holding an election so soon, but Tories in general trusted Churchill's political instinct. Two of Churchill's Cabinet intimates-Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) and Brendan Bracken-had insistently urged an immediate election (for fear that Britons' wartime memories would dim). Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second time can ruin a chap...
Before last week's nontitle fight (Sergeant Montgomery will not defend his title for the duration), Moran was a third-rater with dim prospects. In ten rounds he became a white-hope challenger for the world's postwar lightweight crown...
...long dim room full of murmurs and movements of figures in all kinds of clothes, from the striped uniform of Buchenwald to just a sack draped over bony shoulders. The walls were lined with bunks built right up to the ceiling. The 1,500 slept four, six or eight or any number to a bunk. When it was really crowded, men slept on top of each other and the ones on the bottom, like as not, were dead of suffocation in the morning...