Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaceman Wernher von Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...
Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...
...Crimson can crack the relatively weak Princeton defense for at least two touchdowns, it can take the game. But if the offense continues to faint when it comes within sight of the enemy goal line, Princeton will win, and Harvard can count itself out of the Ivy League race
Today NATO is divided against itself over Algeria; the United Nations is split; the United States has chosen to support through default a position which has a faint scent of loyalty to our allies and a stench of futility. Even if the regard of anticolonial nations is of no consequence, even if the support of the United Nations were not a compelling demand, even if support of United Nations intervention were really opposed by all our allies, the UN still offers hope in Algeria. France offers none...
...chief of the bureau's photographic research section, the camera's purpose is to test the resolving power (fine-grainedness) of photographic films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...