Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China -- itself in need of some respectability these days -- to abandon its most disgraceful clients. The U.S. should also withhold aid to Sihanouk until he breaks with the Khmer Rouge entirely. Perhaps, deprived of all international tolerance, they will suffer defeats, lose their ability to recruit troops and fade into history...
...satellites, advanced instruments and modern theory, scientists have become ever more familiar with the bizarre dance of the sunspots. Each cycle begins when spots show up in both the northern and southern hemispheres about 35 degrees away from the solar equator. As the cycle matures and the older sunspots fade away (some last only a few hours, others for weeks and even months), new and more numerous spots appear at lower latitudes. Toward the end of the cycle, diminished in number, they appear at latitudes some 5 degrees from the equator...
...that man defines his nature through action; that the path to wisdom winds through false friends and moral booby traps; that maps lead to buried treasure and X always marks the spot; that manly virtue will be rewarded with a king's garlands and a kiss at the fade-out. The Indy stories are just the most recent link in a chain forged at the first campfire, when an elder spun tales to keep the clan together and the demons...
...candidates said the question of clean government might fade in comparison to other campaign issues. But Myers said "The issue of the accountability of government will come up. Right now, it has become quite distant from the people. City government has been more willing to stand with real estate interests than neighborhood groups...We must protect the neighborhoods...
...strange how often business enterprises that seem a basic part of American life just fade away, and how soon one forgets that they were ever there. Yes, like Packards and Studebakers (or convertibles with rumble seats). Or getting one's daughter shoes at Best's, until she grew old enough for cashmeres from Peck & Peck . . . Or trying to recall the Burma-Shave signs that used to enliven those long trips before most people ever took airplanes. TO STEAL/ A KISS/ HE HAD THE KNACK/ BUT LACKED THE CHEEK/ TO GET ONE BACK/ BURMA-SHAVE...