Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bland as it is though, piped-in music has a way of inflaming people-especially people whose feelings for music force them really to listen. "It's so faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green...
...milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin a search for life. The detector will not be looking for bug-eyed monsters or giant, exotic plants. It will be satisfied with nothing more than a faint, fluorescent glow in its own compartmented innards...
Scientists have been studying this "airglow" layer for more than 40 years, and astronomers were cursing it long before that. Its faint green luminescence, which is probably caused by the recombination of irradiated oxygen atoms, masks dim but fascinating stars from earthbound telescopes. And not until men learned how to climb above that shimmering stratum in spacecraft could observers be sure of its altitude and thickness...
...hours passed, faint hope faded to despair. Patrick was not responding to treatment, and the President decided that he must spend the night near his son. He stretched out on a hospital bed set up in a doctors' lounge on the fourth floor. Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morning, the phone next to his bed rang, and the President was told that there was no longer any hope. The President hurried downstairs, for the next two hours waited restlessly on a straight-backed wooden chair, occasionally rising to peer through a tiny porthole, where he could...
People who got a good look at the sun's glowing corona during its recent eclipse may have seen faint veils of light trailing off into space. Appearing as harmless as thistledown, they were visible evidence of the sun's far-reaching violence. Stormy weather on the sun sometimes tosses out clouds of deadly particles, mostly protons, that can kill in a few minutes any humans riding in thin-walled spacecraft. So among the scientists who studied the corona were members of a new, specialized profession: solar meteorology. Their job is to learn to forecast solar weather...