Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice was faint, muffled: "This is Paris calling. . . ." The Associated Press deskman in London, answering the telephone, then heard: "This is Ed Kennedy . . . Germany has surrendered unconditionally. That's official. Make the date Reims, France...
...Where shells had not amputated the trunks of century-old lindens, there were soft, green leaves, and they fluttered down and stuck like bright greeting cards on the Russian tanks' hot grey armor. In the gardens multi-hued tulips swayed to the gun blasts, and lilacs offered a faint fragrance through the acrid fumes...
...grey, troubled streets of Paris began to show patches of color, and U.S. soldiers on furlough caught the first faint scents of spring. Here & there window boxes showed bright yellow daffodils, pink hyacinths, deep-toned violets. The war news was good, and shops blossomed with a gaiety of frothy spring hats and gaudy costume jewelry...
...wind was warm enough last week to melt the snow around the tipples of most of the nation's coal mines; there was a faint hint of spring in the air. Like a grey old bear ending his winter's hibernation, John Llewellyn Lewis lumbered from his den to negotiate with the nation's bituminous operators...
...World War I." As if emboldened by this first faint criticism of De Gaulle at home, some of the U.S. press lashed out at the French provisional leader. Said the gum-chewing New York Daily News, which does not like foreigners anyhow: "Gen. de Gaulle should have been glad to come 200 miles on his knees...