Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jehovah came to Leverett House yesterday in the dim gray hours of the morning and left soon afterward in a Black Maria...
...haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind the curtained windows. A stop at Stuttgart, 50 miles from the front-the huge station was ghostly under dim lights in its cavernous interior as one detachment of soldiers swung off the Welles train, another swung aboard. An English-speaking soldier asked a question about the Welles mission (which was not then discussed in the Nazi press) was sharply shut up by a Nazi official...
...develops in the death of one brother, of a dog, of a mule; in the chance hour's visit of a sleek woman who tears brother Martin's childish heart to bits. In the main, though, the book is merely a play-by-play description of the dim mental processes of the brothers-perhaps the most authentic imbeciles in U. S. letters-and of their borderline methods of staying alive. Author Litsey slops over a few times. But few books have matched his for its communication of utter loneliness, its sensuous clarity, its grave and unforced pity...
...audience of Oxford undergraduates, in a dim lecture hall which, not long before, had resounded with pacifist slogans, Britain's Foreign Secretary expounded last week the novel doctrine that this war is one "between youth and youth." Assuming the role of Pontius Pilate for his generation, Lord Halifax squarely lays the responsibility for the Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed...
...weights will probably be tough sledding. Tudor Gardiner's hopes of taking the much touted Larry Pickett seem dim. Tudor is certainly not favored, but he does have one point in his favor and that is an ability to come through with a surprise package. Dick Lewis is due for a tough...