Search Details

Word: dimmish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Pay Heed to the Prairie | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1981 | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next