Word: fades
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Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Faculty, delivered the prayer. "Our tongues are stunned by a violence we cannot believe; our prayers stumble in the darkness of our shame; we see through a glass darkly, while the shadows shift and fade into the long tragedy of hate and fear that emingly never ends," he said...
Although Yovicsin had hoped to pass against Princeton in an effort to loosen up their defense, Mike Bassett used basic running plays most of the time. On the few occasions he did fade to pass the Crimson line dissipated, leaving Bassett to stare forlornly into four or five determined Tiger faces...
...Plague of Yo-Yos. On June 24, 1924, the Mirror reached the Manhattan scene almost as abruptly as it was destined to fade. "Can you start a new tabloid in ten days?" asked Arthur Brisbane, who was William Randolph Hearst's chief editorial lieutenant. "Nine," replied Walter Howey, who was to be the Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly...
...serpent in her paradise. She knew that in a year her tumor would return, that one day suddenly she would be blind, that a few minutes later she would be dead. But death too can be beautiful, especially in Deluxe Color. Just as Susan's sight begins to fade, her husband is called out to deliver a baby. Nobly she resolves that birth is more important than death, that his place is with the baby and not with her. She sends him off and, smiling ever so sweetly, dies alone-well, not entirely alone. The ushers...
...divest himself of his title and be elected for two months; at week's end the London bookies were laying 7 to 4 against his becoming Prime Minister. Maudling (6 to 1 against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories can win in any case, not unhappily began to fade as a serious contender. Lord Home (10 to 1 against) wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no, but had weighty support among the party's elder statesmen (and, reportedly, Macmillan...