Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catch of 2.3 billion lbs. to 1966's 1.3 billion. The worst hit area has been the mid-Atlantic, where poundage dived from 130.2 million in 1965 to 17.4 million in 1966 -and last month, as the fishing craft set out for another season, the outlook was dim. Spotter planes that precede the boats saw few menhaden schools...
...formal yoking of Christianity with either Judaism or Islam is no more than a dim eschatological hope. Yet ecumenists involved in conversations with Islam feel that there is a valuable purpose to the current talks-the clearing away of centuries of hatred and misunderstanding, the forging of friendship among faiths that face a common enemy in atheism and disbelief...
...melancholy memoir, 91 Revere Street, Lowell tells of life with Father and Mother in Boston. Father was Commander Lowell (Annapolis 1906), a dim, mumbling man who left the Navy for a series of sad civilian jobs, ending as a brokerage customers' man "with himself the only customer." The real commander was Mother, a Winslow, who nagged her husband into resigning from the Navy and badgered him out of the deeds to his own house. In Life Studies, Lowell recalls contemptuously...
...rather, he added slyly, how to surmount the obstacles to British entry that Prime Minister Harold Wilson's own "great clearsightedness and deep experience had characterized as formidable." De Gaulle made it clear that he will oppose British entry and. for that matter, that he takes a dim view even of negotiations. It was one resounding non-or, as the London Express put it in Franglais: "le brushoff...
...this sophisticated stage of U.S. law and politics, such extreme measures are unlikely. But while President Johnson bows to no man in vocal defense of dissent, he obviously takes a dim view of it in practice. He has called his critics "Nervous Nellies," and implied that all dissenters-even men of reason-are killing American boys. Clearly, he would like it a lot better if his critics would simply shut...