Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling...
...importance of little Shigenori Togo in this huge picture was grotesquely exaggerated. He is a mild, faint-voiced career diplomat who has never wielded real weight in Japanese politics. As a negotiator in Russia he was probably no more than Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's on-the-spot agent...
...break down a wall with his fist, he can push over no buildings, perform no miracles that sound cannot easily convey. Clayton's transformation from the scoop-seeking reporter, Clark Kent, to the mythical Man of Iron is accomplished by carefully deepening his voice and having all companions faint, while he slips on Superman clothes. Superman's monologues must be cut to a minimum, suspense maintained by worrying listeners as to whether he will get to the rescue in time. The war has faced the program with another puzzler: Why hasn't Superman joined the Army? Most...
...treated film, there is no surface emulsion and no silver. Instead, a strip of cellophane is thoroughly impregnated with a mixture of "diazo" compounds which are closely related to dyes, but are only a faint yellow in color. Wherever light strikes, the diazo compounds are quickly and effectively bleached. Developing and fixing are combined in a single operation (exposure of the film to ammonia fumes), which may be done in subdued daylight. This exposure does not change the portions of the film that light has reached, but the ammonia turns the unexposed diazo compound red (or some other color, depending...
...interminable regimen of Army inoculations. A medical attendant punctures the recruit's arm with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...