Word: fading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School Band displayed the driving big-band style of a Count Basic or a Woody Herman, the fancily punctuated choruses of sidemen who have played together for years. With a lazy, slushy beat, the band swung into A Ghost of a Chance, faded while 14-year-old Andrew Marsala launched an intricately woven alto-sax solo, then came back strong and brassy, only to fade again before Marsala's languorous solo finish. Although some of the band members could scarcely reach the floor with their feet, they never lost the instinctive surefire phrasing that produces...
...Great Slave Lake area 540 miles north of Edmonton, where Canada's timberlands fade into bleak muskeg swamps stretching northward toward the pole, the signs of oil are as persistent as the mosquitoes. The first Canadian explorers found lakes covered with oil seeping from holes in the ground. Indians and traders skimmed it off for their cook fires, scooped up fistfuls of the rich black muck to waterproof their boots. But to commercial oilmen, the potential of the Great Slave oil has long been only a tantalizing dream. No one had much encouragement until this year. Then Phillips Petroleum...
...along comes Tracy, a "methods engineer" who seems determined to fire the heroine in both senses of the word. He steals her job and gives it to a young lady named Emmy-short for Emmarac. which is short for Electro-Magnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator-but at the fade it turns out he has only stolen her heart...
Sunlight TV Tube. Conventional TV pictures tend to fade out when the light in the room gets too bright. This is because the glowing substance (phosphor) on the face of the picture tube is a reflective powder. In sunlight or other strong light, the reflection gets brighter than the picture and washes the picture...
...wheel and leaves the rest to luck. In a race like this week's test at Sebring, so much can go wrong that he feels luck is unusually important. The 5.2-mile course has so many tight turns and wicked switchbacks that brakes heat up and fade, clutches tend to wear out under constant shifting...