Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think. I'll regret having bought "Can't We Be Friends" if ever the charm of the performance itself begins to fade...
...Interj. 10. CEASE!; STOP! Avast! belay that or there!, bottle it!, break it off!, can it!, cheese it!, cheezit!, chuck it!, come off (of it)!, come off the grass!, curl up!, cut it (out) !, douse it!, dowse it!, drop it!, enuff!, fade away!, freeze!, hold on!, hold up!, kill it!, lay off!, leave off!, let up!, nix!, nix on that!, ring off!, sign off!, siphon off!, sound off!, stow it!, turn it off!, whoa Bill!, whoa Maud!, whoa Mud!, whoa there...
...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...