Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chamber became suspended in a cathedral-like hush. Nobody coughed. Nobody whispered. Nobody rustled. The only sound was a product of the silence -the faint click-click of photographers' cameras that was audible clear across the chamber...
...faint, sweet smell of burning...
Life on earth began more than 2 billion years ago, but only in a few places are primitive fossils clear enough to give paleontologists any faint clue to what that life was like. Most rocks that date from those early years have been deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso...
...cause of today's unemployment is that we are emerging from a system of production--in the factory and on the farm--that required and produced millions of people of such inferior capability, such limited horizons, such faint ambitions, that they are too retarded to assume the more sophisticated tasks demanded of them today...
...some going out upon the yce to beare it off with their shoulders from the ships. But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force of the yce so rased the sides of the ships that it was pitifull to behold, and caused the hearts of many to faint. Thus we continued all that dismall night...