Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a dim crescent moon overhead, shrouded by wisps of clouds. As the soldiers paused in the column, I said to them: "How you doin'?" A big fellow sighed and answered: "This is tough. Can't sleep in nighttime for moving. Can't sleep in daytime for shelling." Around midnight, Horner took his unit out of the culvert and moved farther uphill, preparing to follow Morehouse if he was successful. We had not been long in our new spot, and had just set up our own telephone and radios, when a voice called us and said...
...official or whether they just like each other very, very much. But when, in two pictures so close together as Mission to Moscow (TIME, May 10) and This Is the Army, the President is referred to with such breath-catching reverence, it seems only decent that the audience should dim the lights, steal out softly, and leave them alone together...
...Nassau society Sir Harry and his wife gave lavish dinner dances, sometimes for 300 guests. In 1941 a society page reported: "This year even the Oakes purse feels a proportionate pinch, and there is the shadow of war to dim too much display. However, the comings and goings at Westbourne, their Caves Point villa, keep it about as quiet as 42nd St. at high noon...
RAYMOND MAZALEWSKI got quite a thrill out of his Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...
Calling in melody's bewildring thrill Whilst through dim leaves its partner dreams and glances...