Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senility was not behind Hershey's directive, as one critic implied. The General has spent nearly half his professional life in the Selective Service and has come to view it as a separate social system that must independently punish its own miscreants. This view--and not dim-wittedness--made him insist that there was nothing wrong with his directive, that it merely presented an alternative method of handling "illegal" protestors. The newspapers railed him for his "inability to understand the larger issue...
...past five years. In the same period, the Post's circulation increased 58,804, to 467,505. From time to time, the Star has held tentative merger talks with the other Washington afternoon paper, the sprightly Scripps-Howard News. But chances of such a union are dim now that the Star is well on its way to creating an authentic personality...
Prospects for immediate passage of the program are dim. The Administration wants to delay new domestic expenditures until the war in Vietnam ends. The President's Science Advisor, Donald F. Hornig, refused to endorse the plan when he presented it to newsmen. Zaccharias had reported that his committee wanted the Bank plan "pressed and pressed to completion," but Hornig stressed that "we are not proposing establishment of the Bank. We are releasing the proposal as an idea that has to be shaped by public discussion...
...another stage, Joyce reaches a pitch of unconscious absurdity when, like many another teacher of English, he wonders whether he is getting through to the dim minds hypnotized before him: "My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire." After this, it is hardly gallant for him to accuse the quagmire thus: "Her body has no smell: an odourless flower...
...selection systems currently being considered utilize the "constructive" 19-year-old pool and both have nearly unacceptable inequities. But unless a new alternative is devised (and the prospects are dim), or Congress acts, one of the two will be in effect by June...