Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long five days since the doctors first called upon the Queen and announced that her third child-the first to be born to a reigning British sovereign since Beatrice, Queen Victoria's last-was due "any moment." Two days later, the birth was still "imminent," but a faint wave of uneasiness had begun to spread across the nation. Then, at lunchtime on Friday, the long-awaited report was issued that all four doctors were once again "in attendance." Finally, a little after 3:30 p.m., Prince Philip burst out of Buckingham Palace's Belgian suite, beaming...
...measured by pollsters, the missile gap's impact on public opinion has been faint so far-partly because of widespread public confidence that President Eisenhower knows plenty about defense, partly because the public tends to see national defense as part of the larger issue of "peace," which also takes in the aims and conduct of foreign policy. Public-opinion probers find that the public 1) puts "keeping the peace" far ahead of all other national issues, and 2) believes, by a margin of 7 to 5, that the Republican Party is able to keep the peace better than...
...Trieste nen drifted on down, utterly isolated from outside contact. Probably the mother ship had drifted sideways and the sonar waves were not strong enough to penetrate at an angle. When the bathyscaph reached bottom, contact was reestablished. From seven miles down, Walsh's voice reached the listeners, faint but clear...
...facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated position-clouds do not affect it. The 100-kw. signal fades to a faint whisper during its 480,000-mile trip, but it slants down from space in an admirably dependable manner. In the heavy magnetic storm of November 1959, the moon relay got through to Hawaii when all other radio links failed...
...girl is innocent." Against such amateurs, an old newspaper pro could only look good-and Hearstling Dorothy Kilgallen is a bona fide professional. Rushed to Los Angeles to perk up the Hearst chain's coverage of the Finch-Tregoff trial. Reporter Kilgallen ranged far and wide, occasionally clucking faint disapproval of Carole Tregoff ("No one taking a long look at her would doubt that she was more interested in men than sculpture, soccer or Scrabble"), aseptical-y criticizing the jury ("It contains in the alternate section a lady I would not care to have judge me on a jaywalking...