Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the very Frenchman to talk coexistence with Ho Chi Minh. Sainteny served before the Indo-China war as French Commissioner in Hanoi, and wrote a bitterly anti-U.S., pro-Ho book about it. He was subsequently wounded by an exploding Communist hand grenade, but this did not dim his ardor for Ho, whom he called "the Gandhi of Indo-China...
...level of the sea fell, and the rate of change of sea level is fairly well known. In the lowest house sites, Dorset relics are mixed with those of Thule Eskimos, who must have eventually taken over. At the other end of the time scale, the diggers found dim traces of an even earlier people. Apparently the forbidding Arctic has a long human history...
When the supers arrived backstage, it was one vast, dim-lit confusion. Stage hands frantically moved sets in every direction. A huge flat nearly smashed through the curtain. Soldiers, gypsics, street urchins, and buxom factory girls scurried aimlessly around the stage...
...Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, shook up his staid readers and set off a fusillade of protest in the French press. Just back from his first trip to the U.S. in four years, Brisson reported: "In Washington, in New York, distrust is everywhere." Brisson, whose paper takes a dim view of Premier Mendés-France reported that Americans felt that France, by reneging on EDC, had gone back on her word. When Brisson argued that France is rightfully worried about Germany after three invasions, he reported that a top Washington "policymaker" replied: "One understands that a woman...
...fixtures. Union President Paul Milling said that members pledged about $2,000,000, and "two of the biggest Wall Street bankers were very receptive" to helping with the balance. At week's end Wanamaker's was still dickering with the union about selling out, but chances looked dim that the store would continue...