Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leftist revolution in 1952, nationalized the big tin mines and energetically pushed the state oil monopoly, formed in 1937 after an earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year agreement to search for and produce...
...below, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre looms in the dusk beneath a skeleton of steel girders that shores it up, a byproduct of the 1927 earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...
...main strength of the impressionists, both foreign and domestic, was color-and color has always been a sometime thing. Man never has needed a highly developed color sense in order to get around, though he must see shapes fairly accurately, hence his color impressions tend to be comparatively dim, vague and intermittent, and to reproduce badly in the mind's eye. This helps explain why the French inventors of impressionism struck their contemporaries for a time as crazy. In subordinating form to color, they seemed to do violence to nature. And in picturing the sunny dazzle of daytime outdoors...
Since the fight over management began. Financier Stuart has taken a dim view of Publisher Ferger, who now votes a majority of the paper's stock under a trust agreement. Once Ferger flew to see him in Chicago, and at the end of their conference said he was going directly to catch his plane back to Cincinnati. Stuart later checked Ferger's expense account for the trip, found that it did not jibe with Ferger's account...
...Dim Viewer. In Milwaukee, Robert W. Sump was fined $100 for reckless driving, despite his explanation to the cops who chased him at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. that he: 1) did not hear their sirens or see their flashing warning lights; 2) merely overlooked one traffic light and four highway stop signs; 3) failed to notice that he was driving the wrong way up a one-way street...