Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jails were filled to overflowing with political enemies when Marcos Pérez Jiménez was boss in Venezuela. Last week the chubby little (5 ft. 4 in.) dictator, who has been living a life of ease in Miami Beach since his overthrow in 1958, got a faint idea of how it feels to be on the inside looking out. He was behind bars in Cell No. 505 in Miami's Dade County jail, though Florida justice does not include the exercises in torture that Jiménez' prisons...
...tiny, spidery object all vanes and antennae, creep slowly past the blazing crescent of Venus. This was the U.S. space-probe Mariner II. For more than four months it had drifted away from the earth, coasting down a long ellipse toward the orbit of Venus. Its radio voice grew faint as the miles multiplied into millions, then into tens of millions. But it was never too faint heard by anxious scientists at Goldstone station in the Mojave Desert...
...sign was the probe's temperature which climbed ominously higher as its elliptical orbit neared the sun. Nervously the scientists watched the faint telemetered reports of Mariner's thermometers. Just before the Venus-pass, Mariner reported a temperature dangerously close to the heat that would burst its batteries...
...Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
...notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further on Landau's brain? Even while they conferred, Landau showed a faint sign of improvement; he seemed to recognize a friend. With Penfield concurring, further surgery was ruled unnecessary...