Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned out to be part of a lot sold to Cuba in 1959 by Belgium's Fabrique Nationale. Chemical tests on a submachine gun brought up the faint outlines of the Cuban armed forces coat of arms. On other weapons, where the markings were obliterated, the position of the scrapings gave Castro away...
...Charlestown, the Cattons detect "a faint but undeniable whiff of decay" under the city's genteel tradition." Brierfield, Davis's estate, is said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party...
Moynahan, who took up Yoga only a year ago, and who is "Of course not!" a Zen Buddhist, explained the exercises with a faint Boston accent. One pose, with the left arm stretched forward and the right hand holding the right foot behind the back, Moynahan described as "the Buster Keaton position...
...Advanced Research Projects Agency and cost more than $8,000,000. It was originally conceived by Radio Engineer William E. Gordon of Cornell as a means of studying the electrified layers in the earth's upper atmosphere by shooting enormously powerful radar pulses through them and listening for faint echoes. Since those electrified layers control long-distance radio communication and are involved in attempts to devise some defense against ballistic missiles, almost any information gathered by the scope promises to be worth the price...
...national boycott of Christmas proposed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is the most ambitious attempt to engage the nation's sympathy yet considered by Negro leaders. They apparently fear that, without an incessant and continued civil rights offensive, the enthusiasm of the Washington march will dissipate into faint murmurs of individual protest. In their fears they are probably justified. In their recommendations, however, they have moved to an entirely inappropriate extreme which would only alienate the community respect they have so deservedly gained...