Word: dimmish
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...ranks of the rootless. Pay heed, Mondale. The last thing they need is another tax increase on top of real estate taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, Social Security taxes. And stores that long ago lost their merchants have filled up with Government offices where the personnel never seems to dimmish, and their pay always seems to go up, never down like those who try to create the wealth and risk all they have and never go out on strike...
...night at Lamoille County's Hyde Park jail, then had to come up with $4,000 bail. Reed was commanded by the court to keep out of bars for a while, but the judge later modified the ruling, provided that the actor's drinking did not "dimmish his proper lawful behavior...
Wealth and generations of superiority, says Hall, have made the nobility independent of public opinion. "The divorce court today represents more happiness than the silver wedding parties of our fathers," says Lord Kinross (only one marriage dissolved). The prevalence of silver or even golden divorces does not seem to dimmish the peerage's optimism about marriage; Earl Russell took a fourth wife at 80, and the Marquess of Winchester, now 99, tried for the third time...
Lieut. Stanley Poole (Darren McGavin), a hard-bitten campaigner, has been frightened out of his dimmish wits by a directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
...sold by Boston's New England Nuclear Corp. The small metal cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve years for 'the light to dimmish 50%. Though its radioactivity is low, only persons licensed by the AEC can buy it, but the maker estimates that when the instrument is made available to the public the price will be about...