Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this is really a pretty shallow--and maybe unseemly--way for a grownup to make a living...
...actually didn't swear at all in high school; I never used that particular word in casual conversation or scrawled it on bathroom stalls. I didn't want overuse to dim the impact of that word in case I ever needed it. But in (good) writing, words are sacred, and each one counts, and each one is there for a reason...
...show they are still in business with another attack. "Sure, this is a serious defeat," says the Tupac Amaru's European spokeswoman Norma Velazco. "But it is not over yet." Peru's other, larger terrorist organization, Shining Path, would probably like to stage some other outrage to dim Fujimori's victory...
...research paper deadlines approach, students must venture into the stacks of the vast Harvard library system. After navigating Hollis and obscure on-line indexes, braving the elevators of Widener, physically moving the stacks of Pusey and staring bleary eyed at 20 digit call numbers in dim lighting, several desired books may finally be located. For the lucky few, the found books are circulating ones (the library allows them to be checked out) and the library adventure is over after proceeding to the nearest student disguised as librarian. For many, however, the fun has just begun...
...final work of the first gallery is an imposing monumental image attributed to the Northern Sung painter Fan Kuan, one of the acknowledged masters of Northern Sung landscape painting. Even under the dim lighting to protect the fragile works, one can still discern the painstaking brushwork and elaborate design that many associate with the austerity of Daoism and the harsh climate of Northern China...