Word: faded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music was fatally stigmatized as "serial" by its won early champions, and the public image of cloistered men disgorging an endless series of mechanical monsters has yet to fade. People will always demand the ambrosia of the past, and contemporary composers refuse to serve it, a decision approaching martyrdom...
...diameter on the upper layer of fog. The chopper then descended to 100 ft. above the fog and, at a speed of 30 m.p.h., began to fly in a gradually enlarging spiral pattern until it reached the edge of the circular outline. Within a minute, the fog began to fade away at the center of the circle. Ten minutes later, a clearing nearly a mile in diameter had been opened above the airport...
...time, Hitler openly savored the prospect of humiliating Russia by reviewing his triumphant soldiers from a stand in Leningrad's Palace Square. But three months after the invasion of Russia began and the prospects of quickly subduing Leningrad began to fade, he grew angry. The German high command declared: "The Führer has decided to raze the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth...
...problems are worse. The lesson is that federal programs tend to be innovative only at first; soon both their officials and their beneficiaries, such as subsidized farmers, share a vested interest in making eternal what no longer makes sense. Even after their purpose is achieved, federal agencies rarely fade away; they simply double their budgets and staffs. Even as Americans bemoan more taxes, federal largesse often makes them takers rather than givers...
...Fade Away...