Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the West's intention looked firmer, its ability brighter than in many months-which was faint praise...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 57, saw spots, felt faint, asked his hospital commissioner for advice. The advice: slow down. A possible alternative: coronary thrombosis. "Is that the thing," inquired the Mayor, "that blows you over?" He was told that it is. "It's a good thing to know," said he, and proceeded to charge around much as usual...
...Colorado's Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said reassuringly: "We'll get a bill, and contrary to most superficial impressions, it will be a good bill. It will have a faint umbilical cord to the original State Department program, but in its important respects it will be our bill...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...