Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev only raised hackles by his obstinate attempt to act like a spokesman for a group that had already rejected his right to do so. With the exception of Ghana's Nkrumah (who suggested that perhaps the U.N. should have three deputy Secretary-Generals), no one showed even faint enthusiasm for the Soviet plan to reorganize Hammarskjold out of a job. Khrushchev's airy claim that he and Tito had "fully" patched up their longstanding quarrel was belied by his own implicit admission that, in fact, they had not come to terms on i) their deep ideological differences...
...likelier looking specimen than towering (6 ft. 2¼ in.), handsome Cabot Lodge. He is 58, has grey hair and eight grandchildren, but he still has a youthfully athletic air about him. His voice is throatily masculine, with a kind of standard, radio-announcer accent that shows only faint traces of Boston and Harvard...
...movie critic for TIME and the Nation, who died suddenly in 1955, when only 45, before the publication of his finely wrought Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, A Death in the Family. In 1936, says Evans, black-haired, husky Jim Agee seemed younger than his 27 years and still retained "a faint rubbing of Harvard and Exeter." Though likable and above average as an individual, he "didn't look much like a poet, an intellectual, an artist, or a Christian, each of which he was." Agee's own view was darker. He saw himself and Evans as "two angry, futile...
Colleagues sometimes tease Astronomer Willem J. Luyten of the University of Minnesota by calling him a "stellar mortician" because of his passionate interest in dying stars. Luyten does not mind the ribbing; the faint pinpoints of light that he studies are the end products of stellar evolution and hold many secrets of the universe. Recently, Astronomer Luyten found the dimmest star yet: a minuscule "white dwarf that emits 50,000 times less light than the sun, yet probably contains an equal or greater mass. "This one," he says, "looks to be at the end of the line...
...cold war. They rejected in a chorus of "No!" heard round the world the suggestion that the U.S. was second best. And President Eisenhower's fighting defense of his policies put an end to the post-summit period of above-the-battle presidential calm that had lent a faint color of truth to the Democratic charges...