Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together or separate, the chances of Alaska and Hawaii are dim for the foreseeable future; the steam has gone out of the statehood movement. Said California's Democratic Representative Clair Engle, an advocate of statehood, in opening the House debate: "If this legislation fails, it may postpone for many years, if not forever, the entrance of these incorporated territories as states-of the Union...
France was most heavily represented, with seven artists, and made the poorest showing. Its entries were mostly tasteful, but merely tasteful. Germany did better. Hans Uhlmann offered abstract metal sculptures that look gay as birds yet precisely engineered as bridges. Fritz Winter's contrastingly gloomy canvases showed what dim-lit richness a few masterfully placed bars and smears of color can assume. The British contingent was all grim, and saved from dullness only by the brilliant horror pictures of Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953), who can make a painted face seem to shout out loud...
Outside in the dim street, the crowd waiting through this dazzling dinner at Downing Street speculated whether there would be any dramatic announcement that night. Next morning several hundred were still waiting and guessing. All morning they waited and talked, as the great men of the land went in and out the black door. By late afternoon there were more than 2,000 gawpers standing in the street. "I wish they'd tell us something," groused a photographer."! haven't eaten since last night...
...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...
...weak to be turned back into an image on the face of the picture tube, but Morgan and Sturm have learned how to amplify it enormously. They can put their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes. The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope, and also important for the patients; doctors can now step down the power...