Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy's victory might have national repercussions, as well. Unlike Clements, he takes a dim view of Adlai Stevenson (he supported Richard Russell's candidacy in 1952), and at next year's Democratic Convention, Chandler may lead a delegation pledged to defeat Stevenson at all costs...
...solid (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs.), solemn, soft-spoken mountaineer, he plans a campaign that will "stress honesty, frugality, economy and integrity in government." But with the Democrats loyally closing ranks, and Chandler's pretested corn-and-comedy act on the road again, G.O.P. hopes look dim indeed...
Those aren't the contours of a Navy man, mused the water-taxi pilot suspiciously, regarding one of his fares by dawn's dim light. Nevertheless, he said nothing as his passengers debarked at Buoy 25 in San Diego Bay, where the crews of three destroyers were beginning to stir. But back on the beach he confided his suspicions to the shore patrol...
...watchers picked out a couple of stars that resembled the Square of Pegasus. Then Karl Krienke spotted a dim celestial body which neither he nor Macfarlane could identify, even with the star charts. In the rain, two nights later, the two amateurs waited for a break in the clouds, rechecked their data. Then Macfarlane, "so excited I could hardly dial Western Union," rushed word of their new find to Harvard Observatory...
...great sovereign governments of the West, the mightiest autocratic potentates of the East and great burgeoning billion-dollar corporations. Gulbenkian himself seldom dirtied his hands with the actual pumping and selling of the oil. He was an operator, an adept at what the Armenians call bazarlik, a dim figure who, in the words of one biographer, "appeared from nowhere with a proposition and usually disappeared with a profit...