Word: fading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passenger waits for his flight in one of the six lounges, lights warn him of his departure: they fade over where he is sitting, and brighten at the loading zone he is supposed to take. (If he is dozing and does not get the hint, the old-fashioned public address system still pours in over him.) Jetliners nose in to the terminal like animals to a trough. To enplane, passengers simply walk along a short, level ramp into the aircraft's nose door. The umbrella roof keeps the weather away...
...reverberations of the summit collapse began to fade last week, the nation could count some net gains from what had at first seemed to many to be if not a disaster, at least a calamity. Khrushchev's ranting belligerence had rallied the Western nations closer together, and at home, even amid election-year recriminations, a heightened sense of national unity was evident...
...President finished his summit report on television last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), people watching CBS saw Ike's face fade from the screen to be re placed minutes later by a huge missile blasting off its pad. "For centuries, the histories of earthbound men have been filled with conflict," boomed an announcer, followed by a close-up shot of a pack of Luckies...
...actions of Russia. He did not make telling points. In sum, Soviet Russia appears to have found some legality, not only to embarrass the United States, but to stress to the United Nations that if international law is to be rewrit ten here, the U.N.. too, could fade out ingloriously...
...opponents of capital punishment were patient enough, they could just sit back and wait for it to fade away-in practice, if not on the statute books. But abolitionists try to hasten that fadeaway by argument...