Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screams of dying citizens rang in Gordon's ears as he stood unarmed at the top of the palace steps. A party of Arabs, their "bloodstained white robes [swinging] brightly in the dim light," swept up to him and halted. "Where is the Mahdi?" demanded Gordon. They made no reply...
Last week he was nestled in the respectable but unusual surroundings of Manhattan's Little Club, a dim East Side spot with some Broadway overtones, for a series of Sunday-midnight concerts. Looking a little like a pudgy, scholarly Satan, Harpsichordist Valenti threaded his way among the tables, mounted the platform and affectionately patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than...
...Vermont senator, who delivered the Godkin Lectures here in 1949, also said that the situation in Indochina will be "critical for long years in the future," that chances of a $200 raise in income tax exemptions are "very dim" for this year, and that "everything Senator McCarthy says is irresponsible...
Modern, sterile John Hancock Hall is a far cry from the Haig, a tiny, dim-lit supper club across from Los Angeles' plush Ambassador Hotel. Yet, with just a few numbers from his low pitched saxophone, Gerry Mulligan, a lean-faced, red-headed young man with a "new sound," proved last night that he isn't far from home...
Time was, in the goggle and duster days, when the U.S. had such a road tradition, when half a million New Yorkers jammed out to watch the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island. In the Vanderbilt were such car names, now dim, as Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet...