Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leader Prince Souphanouvong, and Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan. The object would be to get the Pathet Lao back into the coalition government, which in effect they quit out of fear a year ago, by guaranteeing their leaders' safety in Vientiane should they choose to return. But there is faint expectation of agreement, even if the conference does materialize...
Father was indeed a formidable man, the redoubtable Dr. Milton C. Winternitz, dean of the Yale Medical School, spectacularly dynamic and articulate, and full of the authoritarian traditions of his profession. In short, a character to delight Cheever's heart. To Mary's faint astonishment, John immediately became a member of the family from which she herself had fled...
...boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin...
Recalling that only one person had showed up in February 1962 at the original hearing on the underpass bill, McCann said that the issue remained dead until October 1963, when the Cambridge Chronicle-Sun carried a letter objecting to the underpasses which, "just by faint coincidence," was written by the campaign manager of Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, McCann's opponent in the election for state seator. The man was Moot...
...scattering of sportswriters took defeat hard enough to hint "fix," but the rest took their medicine. And bitter it was. "Hypocrites!" yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference. "Whatcha gonna say now, huh? Huh? Who's the greatest?" "Cassius," came the faint reply-too faint to satisfy the new champ. "Let's really hear it!" he hollered. "Who's the greatest? I'll give you one more chance: Who's the greatest?" The chant was loud and clear. "You, Cassius, you. You're the greatest...