Word: fading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to recognize Turow from his selfportrayal as an anxiety-ridden student in One L. One indication of change is his attitude toward academics. When asked about his 3L courses, Turow bursts into genuine laughter: "Who, me? Courses? The second and third years," he explains, "tend to fade into some kind of boredom, distraction and distance from school. Course material seems much less difficult, and students suddenly stop working as hard...
...chef, then enjoys a brief career as door-to-door salesman before pushing on to America. In the New World he goes to Hollywood to survey the box-office appeal of leading stars. He boosts the career of Lana Turner; others are branded "Box Office Poison" and quickly fade from the screen. War breaks out, and David serves England as aide to Spymaster William Stephenson...
...million Beetles later, workers at the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg were busy enshrining the last Bug to be produced in West Germany. Some 300,000 Beetles a year will still be made in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, mostly for local use. And the familiar shape will not fade very soon elsewhere. The company claims that well over half of the Beetles built are still on the roads around the world, including nearly 4 million...
...boys in Company C, they are a demographically balanced platoon in the manner of World War II movies: a hippie, a black, a farm boy, a redneck and so on. The roles are played by unsown actors, who, like all good soldiers in a losing cause, are destined to fade away...
...delegations, and between these delegations and existing student-faculty committees. But Calabrese says this problem has now been eliminated. "There is a much greater amount of communication and a greater consensus now about what we are trying to accomplish," he says. "The disagreements between various factions are beginning to fade away. I'm confident that we won't let trivial things hold us back now. I think we can produce a constitution within seven weeks...