Word: fading
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...advantages of German A fade in the second semester, Spaethling pointed out, when students become bored with parroting back phrases. German B's problem is that "you can't put a rule in an empty room," he said. "You have to fill it first with sounds and noises and then introduce a rule to make sense of the jumble...
...Great Train Robbery without a subplot. A man (Clint Eastwood) rides into town on a mule, kills a whole bunch of bad guys, kills some more bad guys, and then as a change of pace, kills some more bad guys. Then he rides out of town. Music up. Fade...
...snowball effect. The argument presented at Harvard, and elsewhere, that faculties should refrain from concerted action, is in no logical way weakened as more schools refuse to release ranks--just because everyone is doing it does not make it right. But the argument, logical to the end, might simply fade away...
...Hall for "A Rally for Thoroughly Criticizing Liu and Teng for Their Bourgeois Reactionary Lines." The youngsters boomed approval when speaker after speaker denounced Liu as "the Khrushchev of China," the "boss of the capitalist class," and warned that unless the Liu-Teng platforms were banished, "China itself might fade away." Clearly, the Guards were pressing for a showdown...
...fresh money to get the industry back into mortgage lending in a significant way," says President John W. Stadtler of National Permanent S & L in Washington, D.C. Happily, savings again are flowing into S & Ls, after huge withdrawals earlier in the year. But the brightening mortgage outlook could quickly fade, S & L leaders agree, if the Treasury goes ahead with its tentative plans to issue a 5% supersavings bond, which would suck money away from thrift institutions...