Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates whose being is defined, whose views are shaped and whose success is measured by their ability to win votes. Clinton, who has been campaigning ceaselessly since junior high school, approaches politics as an obsessive host, something for this group, something for that set, an endless round of dim sum. Bob Dole, master of the Senate floor, is a tireless vote hound as well. When Dole says of legislation, as he always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much...
...thinkers who preceded him, and we stand on Newton's, plus his successors'. Because of them, we can map the human genome system and fling spacecraft past Jupiter. We are much too busy and progressive, thank you, for the magic charms and potions and amulets that so bedazzled our dim ancestors. We clasp at this faith and manage to hold on in spite of the myriad irrationalities of daily life. But every so often some public event gives our congratulatory self-image a sharp blow to the chops...
Does the defeat dim his Olympic prospects? Only slightly. The Kenyans, who held four of the world records Gebrselassie broke, know what they're up against. "On the track he is tough," said Tergat. "He is the man to beat in Atlanta...
...Back in 1973 there were predictions that the comet of that name might be the brightest of the century. It turned out to be a total dud. Halley's comet was just as heavily overhyped 12 years later; that time around, at least, history's most celebrated comet was dim and unimpressive...
...there is one dim ray of hope this year, it came from the campaign of Pat Buchanan. The New Hampshire victor did very little face-to-face glad-handing. He was, however, more than happy to invite the press in to watch him reach voters the new-fashioned way: recording commercials, videotaping commercials, even writing commercials. His other prime method of communication was decidedly old-fashioned: the speech at the rostrum, where audiences came not to shake his hand but to listen to what...