Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 13 gal. of water still in the hold. To the adventurer, the climax was the saddest part of the voyage. "Only twelve miles to go," he tells Tinkerbelle, whom he regarded throughout as "my dearest companion," and then he adds: "The thought brought on a faint stabbing of pain...
...sincerity, Rousseau gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman feigned a faint to gain a respite. But when Boswell left, they were friends and he was walking on air. "What variety my mind is capable of!" he wrote in his journal. "I have a noble soul...
...voices quavering with anguish. Against a back ground of weeping guitars, they sing of sin and love gone wrong, of wasted lives and impending doom. Fado means destiny, and its baleful laments are more than the fatalistic Portuguese can bear: old men weep and women grow faint, all revelling in the joys of suffering...
SHAPE to Brussels. Thus far, Europe's East-West exchanges are more a faint patina than a deep-running break in postwar patterns and allegiances. But they are a part of the stirrings of nationalism and independence, a reflection of the willingness to re-examine the status quo that is inevitably having its effect on the twin military blocs facing off in Europe: NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries...
This is dangerous ground to occupy, and despite his fervor Phillips uneasily senses that it is. Time and again, his Truman testimonials, having run out of plausible foundation, drift lamely into the damnation of faint praise. The fact that Truman increased the White House staff from 600 to 1,200 is listed as one of his achievements; so are his January budget briefings for newsmen and his veto record (250 bills...