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Word: dimness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away with next to nothing can do so here in Service Athletics B-23: Cambridge Youth Soccer. But watch out, if you get in sections 1-7, you're going to be coaching teams from Cambridgeport. They may not speak English too well, and take a rather dim view of authority. Carding can get ugly here...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Confi's Take on Coles | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government -- though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils of U.S. policy, it is hard for his disciples to understand why he would agree to return hand in hand with the U.S. military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide: The Once and Future President | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: 3-D Mother | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...blow to a southern white culture rooted in the dim and dark days of slavery," Chatfield said of the decision, which banned segregation in public schools...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Chatfield Speaks on Civil Rights | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...generally considered to be less than 50%. "We proposed trying to rescue his liver," says Dr. Andreas Tzakis, head of liver transplantation at the University of Miami. "He refused." One thing is sure: as Benny loses weight, and his skin turns ever deeper shades of yellow, his chances dim with each passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sick Boy Says Enough! | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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