Word: fadeback
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...Japanese "fadeback" from Manila proved to be illusory. The enemy, it appeared, had not flatly lied when he boasted that the city was being fortified for resistance block by block, building by building; he had merely told a half-truth. It was not true in the northern sector of Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River; it was all too true of the southern sector, on the left bank...
...Barnstead. The telephone rings. The affluent Mr. Barnstead is in the hotel just across the street, stricken with toothache. When he appears for treatment there is considerable doubt whether the angry Biff, gas cap in hand, will ever let him out of the operating chair alive. There is a fadeback and the audience is presented with the case history...
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