Word: fading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second week in a row, American and Australian troops probed the Red redoubt of Zone D, but this time the Communists did not fade back into the jungle. After B-52 bombers from Guam had softened the zone with two bomb runs, the Reds made a stand in a fortified village, catching a company of U.S. paratroopers under crossfire with two machine guns. The Americans took out one gun with rifle grenades, then charged the second. The Reds broke and ran, dragging bodies with them through their escape tunnels. "There was blood all over that trench," said an American first...
Vocally, Miss Dee's lack of Shakespearean experience is evident. Final phrases often fade into inaudibility, and she tends to drop final consonants in words like "mind" and "thousand." Her long concluding speech, wherein, tamed at last, she talks of wifely duty, comes out choppy, lacking shape and flow...
...found absolute proof that there is life on Mars. But impressive evidence has been mounting for years. Among the red areas that give the red planet its name, astronomers can see darker patches that change and fade through the Martian year in a manner that strongly suggests the seasonal growth of vegetation. When the thin icecaps at the planet's poles disappear with the coming of the Martian spring, belts of darker color creep toward the equator, sometimes crossing it. This effect might be caused by some nonliving chemical change under the influence of drifting water vapor, but biological...
...what about 1966? Inevitably, the post-Kennedy desire for continuity and stability will fade to some extent. Education costs will continue to rise, and new taxes will be necessary in many states--notably Massachusetts and New York. Already, Governors are grappling with hostile legislatures in what has become an annual rite of spring...
...poet of the industrial society, Lewis said, has not achieved the "imaginative understanding" of his environment which is the basis of Iyric poetry, "The contemtemporary poet instinctively distrusts the present. Poetry," he said, "must come to terms with the urban-industrial landscape or else fade away with a long sigh of nostalgia...