Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your haw-haw-lier-than-thou reviewer's damning with faint puns Peter De Vries' Through the. Fields of Clover: for such a pun-stirrer to grind up De Vries' meaty message with half-witticisms of his own seems in wurst possible taste-particularly in such a notorious quip-joint as TIME...
...even this faint turnout is unprecedented in the history of the Harvard-M.I.T. cross-registration program, and has prompted a proposal for the Administrative Board to "redefine" its exchange policy...
...future universe dominated intellectually by brainy machines, Williams sees one faint hope for man: "The science of genetics is young and moving swiftly. We may learn how to design our children on the machines...
...sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate, as its more serious scenes seem faint. And in time Julie Andrews, however engaging, seems no Guinevere, as Robert Goulet, however nice his voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur with a touch of inwardness beyond...
...Baron Cherwell pressed for strategic bombing of such targets as workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics, Tizard found the damage estimate five times too high. But he got nowhere. Churchill's intimate won a backstairs Cabinet fight that had "the faint but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt." Labeled a defeatist, Tizard was forced to sit out the rest of the war as president of Oxford's Magdalen College...