Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came, in October 1952, when dim-eyed old Dan Tobin could no longer forestall Beck's rise to the throne. Tobin himself placed Beck in nomination for the Teamsters' presidency with a soaring declaration: "There is not the slightest stain on his character. His conscience, I am sure, shines brilliantly in the eyes...
...Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates in European history...
Browder now lives in Yonkers, a dim, muddled man, wondering just why U.S. Communism could never acquire a true American accent...
Congress, for its part, is likely to take a dim view of both reports, since both call for programs that imply the spending of more money than the President has asked in his 1958 budget-and this sum ($4.4 billion), Capitol Hill statesmen already have made clear, is more than most Congressmen intend to grant...
...previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later the trail wound into warmer valleys, and Gunnar would have to stop and wax all over again. Downhill slopes, where he might ordinarily have picked up time...