Word: faint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history's most celebrated objects. Last week a Caltech team led by British Graduate Student David C. Jewitt, 24, and Staff Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
...What followed, though, was unplanned. Principal Gaspar Fabriquante, obviously embarrassed by Weinstein's presentation, tried to make a joke of it. "There must have been something in the water he drank." Fabriquante explained. At which point Weinstein, seated on stage, tell off his chair as it in a dead faint. Everyone watching knew it was an act--everyone that is except for the Nobel laureate alumnus seated behind Weinstein. "The guy jumped up and started frantically examining Anders to make sure he was all right," recalls Libric. "You couldn't have asked for a better...
HANOVER. N.H- If put on a In, playing a sever match on a cold and rainy Saturday morning on a postage stamp field in the hills of New Hamperire might rank as one of the meins taxing of all anxieties endeavors. And for the faint half of their 2-0 win nest Dartmouth, the members of the Harvard men's soccer team looked like they would place it at the top of that list...
...make the choice, "he replied with a faint smile...
...fine points of the U.N. Charter. At the ceremony, Holsinger, despite having pledged to uphold the Scout motto, seemed unprepared for a telephone call from the genial Old Scout himself, Ronald Reagan, Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America. Gasped Holsinger: "I thought I was going to faint...