Word: fading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson: "Neither Monty nor Rommel asked the public-opinion...
...Italians have a word for what has been happening to their economy lately: sboom. An s placed before certain Italian words turns them into their opposites, and "unboom" just fits the bill. When Italy's postwar economic miracle suddenly began to fade last year, the sboom set in. Last winter and into the spring, the lira wobbled and fled the country in uncounted millions. The stock market dived, and inflation rampaged. Italy's economy, further unsteadied by continuing political crisis, looked sick indeed...
...long while, it seemed that Alvin York was determined to contribute to another Army legend-that old soldiers never die. He had begun to fade as early as 1949, when he suffered a stroke, was repeatedly hospitalized thereafter, but he clung to life. Only last week did death, of "general debility," finally come in a Nashville Veterans Administration hospital to Alvin York...
...police chief's wife (Odile Versois). Poor Claudia is heartbroken, and of course Odile turns out to be a mantrap. At that point the gang is willing to let its leader hang, but good old Claudia lays down her life to save her friend, and at the fade Cartouche sets his face to the foe and prepares to join her in death...
...flogging and kicking a horse to the finish line by brute force. Rage and frustration still get the better of him once in a while. At Aqueduct one race last week, he had the lead at the three-quarter-mile mark, and then the horse went into a dead fade as the rest of the field tore by. Ussery was still fruitlessly, angrily whipping as he came in a long last...