Word: fading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average Briton is likely to assume that the government at the wheel must be to blame for these recurring jolts. But then his memory of each jolt tends to fade quickly as soon as the road gets smoother. The task of the Conservatives in this election is to make vivid recall of these crises to show, if they can, that they were blunders characteristic of Labor's rule...
Then Gehrmann slowly began to fade. "I felt kind of sick," he said the next day. "In the third quarter the other runners started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns and in the short straightaways, Yale's tall George Wade took the lead. John Twomey of the Illinois Athletic Club shouldered past him. With 2½ laps to go and Gehrmann apparently in trouble, Wilt swung ahead of the field...