Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...most difficult and most challenging task was making the United States Olympic team. Things looked dim when he finished third in the indoor AAU's, and failed even to qualify in the outdoor finals. As a collegiate swimmer during the season, he faced the problem of converting to long-course swimming in 50-meter long pools, with two less turns per 100 meters...
Leverett's towers glowed with a dim bleakness last night under a partial blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised tower inhabitants to find some other sources of illumination. He did not prohibit candles...
...surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that are bounced off Echo show the same variations...
Because expense accounts are legal business deductions, it is the taxpayer who splits the check. "Lights would go dim along the Strip in Las Vegas," says Randall, "and chorus girls would be unemployed from New York to Los Angeles if it were not for that great modern invention, the tax deduction." Public indignation over expense-account abuses is rising, he says, and "may be the next spectacular issue for the politicians"-unless U.S. business sees the credit-card myth for what it really is and starts to put its own house in order...