Word: fades
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...that the American schoolmarm is a figure of heroic proportions. It is she, we found, who tirelessly molds our youth and starts it on the familiar path from red-brick school to White House. Always she sacrifices; always she loses her lover; always she is honored at the final fade...
...importance of Hopkins' illness was in his position as a Washington influence. If a project has his approval, it cuts through Army, Navy and defense red tape, with absolute priority. If it has not his approval, dust gathers on it, important people forget it, its backers gradually fade away. When Harry Hopkins went to bed last week, many & many a defense project crawled in with him and lay down...
...through August, under the blue skies of Central China, the blue-robed, sun-browned peasants had watched their rice fields slowly darken in green, then fade to the color of straw. Within their firm husks the grains of rice had whitened and hardened. It would be a good harvest. Prices were dropping in anticipation...
...cure will also have to be found for that cancer, the large and permanent unemployment problem. From the colorful picture of the Indies, the false system of separate valuation according to race will also have to fade...
...glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that was to bear fruit...