Word: fading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice During World War II, Krim, commissioned a lieutenant colonel, served as assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. At war's end, Krim was named president of Railroader Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion Films, Inc., a film producer, left when it began it fade away, and went back to his New York law firm...
Swift but erratic in pace, and streaked with a social consciousness that was quickly to fade from his later novels, The Shipwrecked is written in the vibrato style that has become Greene's trademark. Where his more mature books, like The Heart of the Matter, treat human weakness in religious terms, The Shipwrecked tends to blame it on a decaying society. But in its unpretentious, entertaining way, it proves again that Graham Greene could hardly be dull if he tried...
Water for an I.O.U. Author Braddon lived to know new horrors which made those of Pudu fade away like old insect bites. He was marched to Thailand and assigned to the work gang building a Bangkok-to-Rangoon railroad. "Down there is much malaria-tomorrow you will be dead," said his guards mockingly. Countless Britishers and an estimated 130,000 Malay natives learned that the Japs were telling close to the brutal truth. Every crosstie under 400 miles of track was paid for with a human life, though, thanks to R.A.F. bombers, no train ever completed a trip. Author Braddon...
...collection of poets, newsmen, critics, painters, sculptors and bullfight purists, Luis Miguel holds court. From Lhardy's, the court is likely to move to a restaurant for dinner, then to a nightclub to sit until dawn, serious and silent, sipping Scotch & soda and watching the floor show fade. From time to time someone will say something sardonic and there will be quick smiles of agreement. It is like watching a doomed prince and his courtiers...
...newsmen, assigned to cover President-elect Eisenhower's trip to Korea on a pool basis, were instructed last week to "fade from the public view" in preparation for the secret flight. The six: U.P.'s Merriman Smith; A.P.'s Don Whitehead; I.N.S.'s Bob Considine; Mutual Broadcasting's Everett Holies, representing the combined radio networks; International News Photos' Frank Jurkoski, pool photographer; Pathe News's David Oliver, who will take pictures for newsreels and TV. Best guess was that they would travel on Ike's plane. The newsmen have agreed to turn...