Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. His professors are interested in order, not in knowledge; most of his fellow students are toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class, the chief victim is Basini (Marian Seidowsky), a dim-witted boy who steals some money and then finds himself blackmailed into blind obedience by his discoverers. Nightly, in an attic over the dormitory, the two young extortionists sadistically beat Basini, who submits to every indignity with the passivity of a pack horse...
Source of Pride. He spoke with the authority of a man who has not let his own dealings with Russia dim his basic Western sympathies. And he obviously has an admirer in Lyndon Johnson. "When I visited Iran just five years ago," the President noted last week at a White House dinner for his guest, "Iran's land reform program had barely begun. Today, 50% of Iran's rural families farm their own land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran...
Though it will take years to translate the Merck group's findings into everyday medical practice, the prospects are promising. Previously, they had appeared dim because man normally produces so little interferon. And interferon from one species is of little or no use in another, so there was no chance of "growing" it in animals for later use in man. But now it seems virtu ally certain that man can be stimulated to produce it by a periodic intake of a harmless form of RNA, either injected or even more convenient, by means of an inhaler. Though the maximum...
...friendly." Most visitors leave convinced that rooms are no longer bugged, nor do they have any sense of being followed. They all agree, however, that plans should be made well in advance, and a plan once made should be adhered to. The Soviet travel bureaucracy takes a dim view of impulsiveness...
Such moderation is characteristic of the Negro press, which takes a dim view of Black Power hotheads. For the Negro press addresses itself to the Negro community as a whole, which is overwhelmingly antiriot. Along with their coverage of issues like housing, jobs and schools, the Negro papers report in conscientious detail the everyday undramatic events of community life-giving the publications a reassuring kind of small-town solidity...