Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first thing that fascinated her about the ballet was the fierce contrast between the blazing light on the stage and the darkness in the flies and backstage. Often she sketched by a dim green light, sometimes she could not see what she was drawing at all. Between scenes she would dash up to the dressing rooms, sketch away furiously while the ballerinas changed costumes. One of her great disappointments is that she never got into the men's dressing room...
Bruckner loved food, beer (as many as 13 seidels of Pilsener at a sitting), and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. His favorite reading matter was the Bible and a life of Napoleon, whom he enormously respected. He had a dim-witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania offering it the dedication of his Fourth Symphony in return for a doctor's degree. When his offer was ignored, he fell into the hands of a swindler, whom he paid a considerable sum to wangle him a degree from the University of Cincinnati...
...army counterpart (of which the Army reputedly takes a dim view) would make Chief of Staff George Marshall and Air Forces' "Hap" Arnold five-star generals (equals British field marshal...
...midnight it was bitterly cold. Men arriving in the drainage ditch unreeled their wire, installed telephones. Other outfits marched up. In the dim moonlight officers assembled their little rear units, started them digging in the soft black earth. The first group already had its orders; long strings of shadowy figures were moving toward Highway...
...President looked fine: vigorous, firm, clear-eyed. But something has gone. That surpassing warmth, that almost electric personal magnetism that was such a tangible things, is dim, or seemed so. He seems more than two years older. Even his polka-dot tie, his lack of vest (as always), his rough, pale grey summer suit seemed too youthful...