Word: fading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where discussion was not dominated by the controversy over Summers’ leadership. In fact, after Matory delivered a speech against Summers and called upon the Harvard Corporation to “rescue us from this crisis,” the harsh rhetoric of February and March began to fade further and further into the past...
...parents’ generation set out to change the world, and I cannot shake this sense of despair that our own generation might fade having lingered too long brooding in the shadow of their failure. Too often, we fight for our ideals in our parents’ same tired tradition—sit-ins, teach-ins, walk-outs, et cetera. It seems right, and yet sometimes I wonder whether they are staged more for our own peace-of-mind than for the effectiveness of their persuasion...
...Crimson was almost a boat length ahead of Navy—the Harvard crew had jumped seven seats in just over 300 meters. All it had taken was 25 strokes and Navy’s No. 1 ranking and 14-race win streak could do nothing more than fade amidst the path already laid by the streaking Harvard boat...
...established as much as a seven-seat lead before the Crimson made a push after the halfway mark. Washington began to fade at the 1,000, and Princeton and Harvard battled yet again...
...established as much as a seven-seat lead before the Crimson made a push after the halfway mark. Washington began to fade at the 1,000, and Princeton and Harvard battled yet again...