Word: fades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazz. He caught up with the Duke in San Francisco and spent the first two days trying to corner the elusive but affable musician. "Hi, Hurd. You're the portrait man. Well, fine. Excuse me, I have to see that cat over there," Ellington would say and fade away. But once the portrait was started, Ellington liked to pose as he held court for his innumerable friends in the artist's hotel room...
...lesson to be learned from The King and I lies in the fact that two most effective scenes are the two simplest. No line of Goldwyn girls endlessly kicking as they fade toward infinity nor any impeccably starched and waltzing Corps Diplomatique nor all the magnolia-scented balls that Darryl Zanuck ever threw had half the grace of Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr romping alone to "Shall We Dance...
...lungs go, coach Bruce Munro indicated last night that the deficit that began in the rain earlier this month has been overcome. "It was not condition," he said, that caused the varsity to fade before the BLC in the second half. "As things got excited they forgot what they had learned in practice during the week," he said...
World War II, however, slowed down Barnum and Bailey as well as the Classics Club, and the ancients went back to their graves until old soldiers, in their turn, began to fade away...
...rather than a reversal of 1952's G.O.P. trend. The American voter has an emotional fear of depression and war, and his vote on election day often depends on which seems to loom largest at the moment. By 1954, the memory of Korea had begun to fade; the chief issue was economic, and Democratic allusions to the Republicans as a depression party had their effect...