Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London, after a trip through the Holy Land, he married his secretary, Mrs. Helen McCallum...
Result of these conferences was that MacArthur got all the Navy help he needed for the Hollandia assault, that stories of bickering between Army and Navy began to fade, even from the scuttlebutt...
...U.S.S.R. has so far ignored Olympic games. But sports isolation has started to fade. Reported TIME Correspondent Dick Lauterbach from Moscow last week: Russia and the U.S. have a score of games in common (including basketball), and Soviet sportsmen are anxious to match skills with U.S. athletes, would welcome visits by American teams...
...windows along the way to stare and stare again with a hungry look. . . . Half an hour later, well-fed, they limped back to their places, all aglow. Resuming his place at a window, a soldier said: 'I gotta keep looking back. I keep thinking maybe it will fade out, like a movie...
...drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father sees him go off to war, waving good-by for the last time. At this point, where memory and the boy's life fade away together, the father's life must go on alone. Grandfather explains to the brokenhearted father that the boy's brief, easygoing, generous, small-town life was worth dying for because it was worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store...