Word: faint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every shop and factory, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered in the faint breeze off the Baltic Sea, giving Gdansk the festive look of a holiday. But traffic was only a trickle of the normal midday rush. At high noon on a working day, the streets were almost empty of people. The only crowd converged on the Lenin Shipyard, the center of the strike and the focal point of the nationwide crisis. TIME Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb visited the strike scene...
...twinight out, all through the summer, we now must suffer the utter ludicrousness of football in August. That's right, football in August--when it's 95 degrees outside and the players need to carry portable air-conditioning units on their backs so that they don't faint from heat prostration after running around wearing 300 pounds of uniform...
...youth any protection against the searing sun. Randy Bossing, 26, was working last week on his roof in Missouri. He took frequent breaks to douse himself with water from a garden hose but soon began complaining that he felt faint. Then he slumped over dead, another victim of the heat...
...basis of the Teeter figures, the G.O.P. hopes for dramatic gains in Congress. There is an outside chance of winning control of the Senate, where the party now has 41 seats. There is only a faint possibility of securing a majority in the House, where the Democrats outnumber their rivals 275 to 159. But if the G.O.P. takes a fair number of seats, it would be in a position to control both chambers in 1982, for the first time since...
LIKE ITS PARENT film, Airplane! is the story of some smelly fish--fish that makes you break out in a cold sweat, experience severe muscle spasms, puke your guts out and then faint dead away. It all sounds rather dull until some passengers, the navigator, the co-pilot and the pilot (played by the wonderfully straight Peter "Good morning Mr. Phelps" Graves) happen to choose fish for dinner. Then things begin to happen. The plane goes out of control, the stewardess switches on the automatic pilot and the doctor (played by Leslie "Watch me tackle that wave" Nielsen) manages...