Word: fades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Present politics and politicians will fade away . . . but Dr. Benjamin Spock and his common sense on child care will continue to bring peace of mind to U.S. mothers for years to come ... I would like to nominate Dr. Spock...
Work on the millimeter-wave generator was financed by the Office of Naval Research, and the Navy has hopes of using the tiny waves for short-range signaling. They fade out quickly in air, so there would be no chance that the enemy might pick them up at a distance. But Dr. Motz is more interested in the scientific uses of his waves. They oscillate so rapidly that they may be able to "see" into atoms, revealing properties that scientists can only guess...
...ancient prophecy holds that 2,500 years after Buddha's death the Way he founded will either fade away entirely or experience a renaissance. The present council will disband in May 1956, when the 2,500 years will be up, and U Nu is hoping for the upsurge. Said he recently: "The growing [Marxist] challenge to Buddhism has not effectively been met. . . The Buddhist organization we are going to have will combat these challenges not only in the intellectual field but if need be in the physical field as well...
...round as an omniscient spectator, introducing the participants and commenting wryly on the spectacle. At appropriate moments, the camera leaves the lovers and returns to the master of ceremonies. One suspects, however, that these exits have become hastier since the film's Boston debut, and that the bedroom lights fade out much sooner than director Max Ophulus intended...
...skeptical eye of the Eastern racing fan, California breeds speed horses -not routers. The Californias tend to set a glowing pace through the early furlongs of the mile-and-a-quarter Kentucky Derby, only to fade in the homestretch.* At Long Island's Jamaica race track last week Easterners watched the latest pride of California, a leggy three-year-old bay named Correlation, and came away convinced there must be something wrong about their impression of California horses...