Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead...
...light of that dim lantern, they cut a poor figure indeed, who would now turn against the professional women who . . . kept their schools open in a time of need...
...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...
Alongside Michael Ambrose Mahoney, Paul Bunyan was a dim and legendary piker. Klondike Mike, the greatest of the mushers, the sourdough who struck it rich and kept his poke, is a living legend. Last week when Klondike Mike, at 74, announced in Ottawa that he was leaving Canada to settle in Los Angeles for his health, newspapers wrote dew-eyed editorials, hoped "his shade [would] be long in growing less...
Automaker Preston Tucker had known plenty of trouble, but none so serious as this. The Securities & Exchange Commission, which once before looked askance at the financial undercarriage of his snazzy, rear-engined automobile (TIME, July 7, 1947), was at him again. This time it took a dim view of his first annual report (deficit $5,651,208). The report, along with Tucker's stock registration statements, said SEC, "contained untrue statements of material facts and omitted to state material facts." SEC scrutinized everything from payments to officers to the very "nature of the business done and intended...