Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Habit. The speech over, the President was off for a brief rest prescribed by his doctor. He went straight to the airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...
This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Despite a faint tone of condescension, this is a good jazz concert, featuring choice instrumentalists in jam session...
...Faint Hearts? The Government's orders had been confusing and many Londoners were unable to figure out whether their lights were supposed to be on or off. Switches could not be pulled on nonessential users of power without pulling them also on essential hospitals, dairies, refrigeration plants and the like...
...however trying and irksome our present troubles may be, the average man will blissfully murmur: 'Attlee is in 10 Downing Street. All's right with the world.'. . . Labor is justifying the voters' faith. . . . But this is the transition period. . . . This is the time when the faint hearts may turn away from...