Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist power meant Molotov, who in U.N. and in the Council of Foreign Ministers strove to freeze into international acceptance (and, where feasible, to extend) the Red Army's conquests. Now that the Russian diplomatic drive had been checked, it was Molotov's turn to fade into the background, making way for the next-and the most serious-phase of the Communist effort to control as much of the world as possible. Propaganda and organization, reaching into every field of human activity, characterized the new emphasis...
...jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...
...this set-up, of course, the quarterback is the most important operator. Odell's quarterback will fake, spin and fade directly to his rear as opposed to the more usual "T" ball-handler, who will step off to the right behind his guards and tackles...
...last eleven years, the motion to streamline the archaic distinction between the College's two Bachelor degrees has once again come alive. The intervening decade has seen the faculty majority of scholars in the classical tradition who so roundly defeated President Conant on the issue in 1935 either fade from the scene altogether or yield to the pressure of what they confess is an inevitable trend. Odds are on the chance that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least as a Bachelor of Science who is a scientist . . . . but, regardless...
...shouts and sobs of desperate Jews, the hobnailed clatter of angry Tommies, the plash of bulging refugee ships, had been heard around the world-in Whitehall, where a harassed Labor Government hoped that the outraged moment would soon fade into the indifferent past; in the White House, muffled in discreet silence; in the Kremlin, where alert eyes watch any disturbances on the lifeline of Empire...