Word: faint
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...been predicted for nearly three months, and for the past two weeks U.S. seismologists had kept their ears to the ground in hopes of catching the faint tremor. High-flying U-2 reconnaissance jets, mounted with fallout-collecting air scoops, stood ready along the shores of Asia to fly at a moment's notice. Then, sure enough, another mushroom cloud rose slowly into the skies over Lop Nor in China's harsh Takla Makan Desert...
...their shift toward the red that they would appear in that part of the spectrum where the much longer waves of visible light are normally found. So they catalogued all possible kinds of ultraviolet that might conceivably come from a quasar and looked for characteristic patterns in their faint spectrograms. At last they found a quasar, 3C-254, whose spectrum showed five clear lines. All except one of them had been identified in earlier-found quasar spectrograms; the fifth, which lay deeper in the ultraviolet, could now be identified by its relation to the other four...
Disorganized, depressed, and debilitated, the Southern bloc in the Senate had faint hope of blocking the Administration-backed voting-rights bill. But last week, more for the record than anything else, the Southerners made their ritual try. The last-gasp effort was somehow symbolized by Mississippi's respected John Stennis, who had scarcely warmed to his subject when he clutched his throat, staggered slightly, fell into his seat. "Get me some water," he gasped to alarmed Senate aides. As it turned out, Stennis had suffered only a temporary throat spasm - a hazard of the trade - and soon recovered...
Industrial Push. The first faint breezes of change came in the 1950s when President Getúlio Vargas established the Bank of the Northeast to make economic studies of the area and handle industrial financing. Soon after, the Communists began exploiting the region's miseries by organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government...
...Safari churned to a close, faint clanking noises were still heard from 16 cars-some from Europeans desperately attempting repairs. They shouldn't have bothered. In twelve years, no non-African has ever won, and the record may forever be intact. Last week's winners came close to denting it: two Sikh brothers named Joginder and Jaswant Singh, in their secondhand Swedish Volvo with 50,000 miles on the odometer. Of course, they have lived all their lives in Nairobi. When they coasted cozily home, the swinging Singhs were hoisted onto the roof of their car and paraded...