Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faint Praise. At an unscheduled press conference, Johnson made much of the fact that his decision had been endorsed by Robert McNamara. He pulled from his pocket a rumpled piece of paper bearing, he said, McNamara's handwritten "alternatives" and "recommendations" and dated Jan. 19-more than a week before the Viet Cong's murderous Tet offensive. Thus did the President bring back the commander of the third greatest overseas force in American history, faint-praising him as "a very talented and very able officer." Westmoreland, it was clear, was no longer an unalloyed political asset...
...invite the commissioners to the White House, as many expected him to, for release of the report, pointedly refrained from commenting on it publicly for three days. When he did bring himself to mention it, before a bankers' meeting on the urban crisis, it was with faint praise. The report "is one of the most thorough and exhaustive studies ever made," said the President. "I don't ask you to embrace every recommendation they make-but I do ask you to do the best...
...civilization, then this is the best case we have had so far." The chance that pulsar signals do come from an intelligent race, agrees Arecibo's Drake, "does remain a possibility." At week's end, Cambridge astronomers reported in a second Nature article that a faint blue star had been tentatively identified as one of the pulsars, providing still another clue that may eventually help solve astronomy's latest and most exciting enigma...
Neither is Hotiana (Paul Mancusco), and with a vengeance. Hot is Kate's rival for the favors of a village mailman, and when she pleads, sounding like a duck in heat, for "Nothing But Him," it not only obscures the merits of the song but leaves a faint prickly sensation in the ears. Her briefer wishing-well plea for Joe is hysterical...
There is a faint hope that Johnson's egregious mishandling of the draft dilemma may stir Congress to implement Senator Edward M. Kennedy's Selective Service reform bill--which would substitute random selection for the oldest-first policy. If Congress, like the President, avoids reevaluating the bizarre draft system, it will continue to exacerbate American frustration with an irrational war policy...