Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Harry Truman's Administration leaders faint-heartedly scurried into maneuvers in the House to save what they might of the second OPA bill. It had been shredded of many controls the President thought were essential. The Senate had defiantly voted a bill that was worse, from his point of view, than the one he had vetoed. The Senate's 62-to-15 vote had said to him in effect: all right, if you don't like it, you can throw price control out the window again-veto...
There are only faint evidences that MacMurray may eventually get the girl (Anne Baxter). But no one really cares very much. The important relationship is between Cowpuncher MacMurray and stallion-two untamed, indomitable critters who have occasional differences but always understand one another. At the fadeout, cowboy and girl stand side by side under a brilliant Western sky, their eyes softly glazed with a love that is plainly directed at the horse...
...universe and its functioning are as concrete as a kitchen table. To the layman they are as staggering as to be told, when he is straining to make out the smudge which is all he can see of the great cluster in the constellation Hercules, that the faint light that strikes his eye left its source 34,000 years...
...dean of Harvard's liberal, 300-year-old Divinity School, a New England Congregationalist with a B.A. from Oxford. Published last week, Dean Willard L. Sperry's Religion in America (Macmillan; $2.50) gets its points across in a manner Britons will understand-emphasis-by-understatement, damnation-by-faint-praise, denunciation-in-a-soft-voice...
Dean Sperry's faint praise of America's profuse denominationalism: "The prodigality of our American denominations is itself the sign of a widespread confidence among us in the religious possibilities of the 'everlasting here and now.' . . . If it be admitted, as it must be admitted, that such a faith is peculiarly liable to the perils of self-deception and the excesses of fanaticism, with the sad tragedies and the moral scandals which so often ensue, it still remains true that the principle is valid...