Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some fanciers of the thoroughbred fresh prefer the Derby (or the Darby, depending on your headsize). Others go for the Preakness. But to that elite Cambridge coterie of followers of those highstrung animals all other races fade into obscurity at the mere mention of the Wellesley Hoop Race...
...hocus pocus of Phi Beta Kappa meetings began to fade away in the 1830's largely as a result the work of the Harvard chapter's Edward Everett, Joseph Story, and John Quincy Adams. The Harvard chapter's change in policy probably saved Phi Beta Kappa from becoming nothing more than the oldest collegiate social organization in the United States...
...Nelson's fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone...
...vacation-time grind is not merely an endurance test. The steady training enables the strokes to raise their cadence to racing conditions, and it is then that the true varsity material emerges and the 20-stroke Apollos fade into obscurity...
...announcement of their marriage. His paper fires him, of course, and for the next few reels, editors, lawyers and even the handsome young couple energetically worry the question: Did the nice newsman really marry the naughty rich girl, or didn't he? As all the din begins to fade, the answer seems to be: he didn't, but he will...