Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried each day to eat less so he would faint more quickly. When at last they said: "Well, my boy, today we are going to finish with you, one way or the other," his heart leaped with relief. The other details of Peter's torture are even more horrifying. In Arrival and Departure their full savagery is modified by the device Arthur Koestler uses, of having Peter relate them to a psychiatrist who is also a Communist and something of a psychiatric case herself. But they are strong enough even when tempered with psychoanalytic jargon. Arrival and Departure...
...headquarters early on election evening. He and Tammany's Secretary Bert Stand chatted idly in the lonely office, occasionally stared outside at the foggy dusk. They were alone until 7:30; then a half dozen district leaders, grim as the weather, dropped in to make a faint pass at gaiety...
...Surprisingly, older men make excellent civil air pilots. Under high-altitude flying conditions (reduced oxygen pressure), oldsters actually stand up better than youngsters: they are less likely to faint or collapse (apparently because they have more stable cardiovascular systems), suffer less loss of memory. With glasses, McFarland believes, many pilots up to 60 can pass the strict flying vision tests; one big airline has 100 pilots over...
This story is told so expertly, detail by detail, that the whole unlikely affair seems believable. More than that-it often approximates hard and honest facts about war and about people. In the routine war melodrama it is always an American prisoner who, faint with thirst, scornfully refuses to yield information while an enemy officer drinks his fill and tosses the surplus into the sand. Here, the situation is reversed. Sahara rings dozens of such changes on old formulas, and in their simple way they make more hard sense pictorially than most documentaries...
Germany's Hope. Prime Minister Winston Churchill answered them last week, in a speech to a national conference of women, in London: ". . . And the enemy. What is their hope? Their hope is that we will weary; their hope is that the democracies will faint later on the long road; that now, in the fifth year of the war, there will be doubts, despondencies and slackness. They then hope that out of this they will be able to consolidate their forces in their central fortress of Europe, their remote home islands in Japan, and extract from our weariness and from...