Word: fading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall, the gendarmerie: the post office; a propaganda showroom; and some offices in the center of town: these are what the leadership has to work with. It isn't much, and where many people cannot read and no one has a choice of how to vote, it tends to fade out of most people's sight...
...14th discovered during 1967, one more than the previous yearly record of 13. In honor of the discoverers, the Smithsonian named it Ikeya-Seki 1967n (the 14th letter in the alphabet). The new Ikeya-Seki, the Smithsonian reported, had a brightness of only the ninth magnitude and would gradually fade away without becoming visible to the naked...
Such allies as Thailand and South Korea are much more hawkish than the U.S. State Department and do not want to negotiate. Along with many Americans, they believe that when enough military might is applied, the Communists will realize that they are whipped and will "fade" back into the jungle. Then the enemy would be unable to demand votes, unification or anything else. A frustrating fact about this otherwise desirable concept is that U.S. generals have been expecting the Communists to fade for at least two years and, though they are plainly sweating hard, they so far have shown...
Cornell juniors Brian Cornell and Pete Tufford got loose on another breakaway against the first defense, and Cornell placed a fade-away shot into the open far corner...
...Hampshire, after holding Harvard to a one-point half-time edge at 32-31, started to fade in the second half, as its full-court press failed, and its earlier ball-control offense dissipated into sloppiness...