Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Missile Crisis of 1962, most Cubans realized their chances for return were pipe-dreams. They became more willing to leave the immediate Miami area and settle down elsewhere in the country--for good. But there are still some who clutch on to a dim hope. They are embittered by the "betrayal" of the United States government, which, they feel, failed to deliver on pledges to help them "liberate" their homeland. A bewildering multitude of organizations sit in Miami and fight among themselves, fiercely pursuing the sterile intrigues of exiles...
Once in a while, the guts are tacitly tolerated by the school to preserve the eligibility of dim-witted athletes. Many more, however, simply reflect the good intentions of such kindly professors as Stanford Political Scientist James T. Watkins IV, who rarely awards anything less than an A on the lovable notion that "There is too much tension in the university-I don't want to add to the general insecurity and unhappiness of the community...
With the pressure on, Harvard's breastroker, Carl Cummins, false started once, losing precious energy. Cummins started slowly. Behind by a body length halfway through the race, Cummins' hopes looked dim. But a tremendous burst of speed at the end pushed him out in front to touch out Army's Jeff Burke. Harvard was hanging by its fingernails, still behind...
Another group of 30 to 35 CNCV members, which feels that McCarthy's campaign chances are dim, is planning a long-range community organizing effort in selected lower-income areas of Cambridge. One member of the community organizing group expressed its rationale: "The war reveals the massive lack of power in the hands of the people in this country...
...Harvard consists of three main divisions: one of them a theater, for academic ceremonies; another a refectory, covered with a timbered roof, hung about with portraits and lighted by stained windows, like the halls of the colleges of Oxord; and the third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim, and severe, consecrated to the sons of the University who fell in the long Civil War. Ransom and his companion wandered from one part of the building to another, and stayed their steps at several impressive points; but they lingered longest in the presence of the white, ranged tablets, each...