Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal-soft skin. "I just can't make myself over in the Brazilian pattern," she decided, and divorced...
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...
...even far from the "mountains," is not smooth. It is covered with tiny "spicules" that jet up suddenly. Tiny only "in the solar sense," they are several hundred miles in diameter and 5,000 to 10,000 miles high. They lick up from the surface and fade away in an average of about five minutes...
...mood of the conference, grim at the start, had perked up considerably by closing day. Said one departing delegate: "I wonder if their enthusiasm will fade when they come down to earth back home." Replied another: "Why should it? It's unrealistic not to believe in miracles these days...
...Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing the picture was up in "fade-proof" paint...