Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, and fog hanging over the flat Indiana countryside rushed steadily back into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair...
...Army was giving a lot of thought to the tangled Pacific command situation, and devoutly hoping an Army man would get the top place. Its "asking price" was that the job should go to MacArthur. But the Army knew that the Navy was likely to take a dim view of MacArthur as generalissimo...
...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...Pacific, as they had in Italy, U.S. dogs of war were proving themselves. On Bougainville, where the dogs got their first combat test, many a Marine took a dim view of them. Said one: "The damned things would get loose and they would go around biting hell out of everybody." But by the time the Marines got to Guam, dogs as well as handlers were veterans; the Marines were more used to them...
...photographers, in the dim station, the heroes brought out their Jap flags and Jap sabers, leaving the pornographic Jap propaganda leaflets packed away in their sea bags...