Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show. Popping like a jack-in-the-box from room to room, he carried on three conferences in three rooms at once. After 29 minutes of conversation snatched between pops, Lord Halifax emerged, his usually somber face wreathed in a wide grin. To newsmen who cornered him in a dim-lit State Department hall, he purred his diplomatic best: "I don't think we need to be unduly excited about what's happened. If there has been lack of consultations on either side at any time, the result will be closer consultations at all times . . . there is substantial...
...Canadians are very democratic and take a dim view of people who try to impress them...
...fiasco failed to dim either Merola's enthusiasm or his dark-eyed powers of persuasion. In 1923, backed by a $35,000 advance sale and $25,000 from the members of Nob Hill's rich Pacific Union Club, Merola launched his first regular season...
Dona St. Columb, though of the 17th-century English noblesse, has a soul the simplest of women will understand. Love's tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country...
...dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half of the window is made partially dim, the right half must be wholly blacked...