Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong 15:01.31, Hackett provided the excitement with a mid-race battle with Edmonton Keyano's Peter Szmidt. At the 500 mark. Szmidt, the world record-holder or the 400-meter freestyle, had the edge, but Hackett proved tougher, inching up and then moving out when Szmidt began to fade...
Says a family friend: "There but for the grace of God goes anyone's kid." Beverly McBeath was no friend at Highland Park (Texas) High School, but she speaks for all her schoolmates when she recalls that John Hinckley was "so normal he appeared to fade into the woodwork." Nonetheless, some time in the barren years since his 1973 graduation from high school, Hinckley went beyond mere ordinariness. His solitude and fecklessness became chronic, and he started drifting...
...nothing but a bummer. [doo-wah, repeat chorus, fade out] --Descartes...
Assuring his viewers he would continue to report and to broadcast. Cronkite said "Old anchorman, you see, don't just fade away. They just keep coming back for more...
...issues with less support, like the economic problems that were emerging as intractable plagues in Black America. Without a visible enemy and without the fire borrowed from the southern campuses at the start of the sit-in period, SNCC workers began to slack off, long-standing projects began to fade, and the "circle of trust" that once had banded together the organization's leadership began to crack...