Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of the occupation is Lieut. Colonel Thurman A. Stout, whose briefing begins with an epoch several milleniums before Marx. In that dim past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently by three Japanese women (who arrived by boat). As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus. The seaborne women settled down on the land while the earthborn men roamed the oceans and found other mates in foreign parts. The grass widows developed...
...always been rare in it. In the great Charles A. Dana's day it frequently supported Democrats, and in Groceryman Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other...
...club is frequented mostly by lieutenants and captains. It has dim lights, small tables crowded around a cozy dance floor. German girls (some wearing U.S. quartermaster stockings) give up resisting U.S. attacks by about 10 p.m. Petting in various degrees develops-described conservatively by a U.S. Army nurse who watched the scene briefly, as "not very pretty...
Chances of studying in Russia in the near future are correspondingly dim. Commenting on a scholarship which offered to send students interested in various phases of Russian culture to the Soviet Union, Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, said that the bars were down and no American students were getting into Russia...
Even before Matthew Arnold brooded thus on Dover Beach in 1867, many Christians had been oppressed by a belief that Christianity was in a perhaps fatal decline, ailing within and sore beset from without. Indeed, the Dim View has been and is almost a cliché in press and pulpit...