Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbor of TIME Advertising Salesman Crowell Hadden learned the hard way how small the world has become. At home in Glen Cove, L.I., he had bet $100 that he could stop smoking longer than Hadden. One night in Paris, not long after, Hadden spotted his friend in a dim Left Bank cave. "There he was," Hadden chuckled, "relaxed and happy-with smoke curling from his cigarette...
...Yankees, unbeaten in seven series since 1942. The Dodgers lost the first two games; no team ever had come on to win a seven-game series* after such a poor start. Even when they erased the deficit by winning the next three games, the Dodgers' hopes were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets Field, where the fences are in easy range for hitters. But the seventh series game, the payoff, was to be played in spacious Yankee Stadium, the vast Bronx lot out of which no hitter, not even Babe Ruth, ever drove...
...heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He moves like a sleepwalker; his smile is that of a man sucking a lemon; his speech is frequently lost in a thicket of syntax...
...Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
...Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...