Word: fades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...
When one studies . . . LAWSONOMY . . . all problems theoretically concocted in connection with Physics will fade away. . . . "All salads should contain a sprinkling of fresh cut grass. ... To imbibe alcoholic beverages. -. aids and abets the disorgs. ... The head should be ducked into a tub of cold water at least twice a day. . . . When man gets out of the economic rut . he will devote much time to the study of universal laws, and to do this successfully he will have TO GET OFF The Earth...
...program, it decided, should lead off with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique...
...Professor Laski is as much political tactician as prophet. He believes that with the war's end popular readiness for extreme measures and experiment will fade. But where conservatives see this as a return, at least in part, to the traditional freedoms of enterprise, with a release of creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval...
...last evening of the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration [in] 1936 . . . Dr. Koussevitzky played his special arrangement of 'Fair Harvard.' ... I had come all the way from Japan to attend, and the inspiration . . . can never fade. . . . The last verse, with the Symphony Orchestra and the Tercentenary Chorus . . . rang out like an exultant march, symbolizing the irresistible and inevitable triumph of American youth crashing through all obstacles to victory...