Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intersections along northwest Detroit's Eight Mile Road Negro workmen begin to gather at 6 a.m., waiting in faint hope that somebody will come by and offer a few hours' work. "It's like the numbers game," one man says. "The odds is way against you. But what else can I do? I been out of work since last fall...
James Costigan, son of a chandelier maker, is both poet and theologian (though he does not profess to be either), as well as a bundle of paradoxes. Though he cultivates a faint brogue derived from his County Kerry ancestry, he never saw Ireland until 1954. He can talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour...
With that went glimmering the last faint hope of settling the rebellion peacefully. Castro, in effect, had already rejected the Roman Catholic Church's proposal for a government of national union, declaring that "no self-respecting Cuban could sit in Batista's Cabinet," and the church-supported Conciliation Commission collapsed in futility...
...Frondizi's margin swelled, he kept a wary eye on the military leaders who had risked everything to overthrow Perón. With perhaps a faint quiver of the upper lip he announced: "I have no commitments to anyone, and will govern solely for 20,000,000 Argentines...
Those who do see it as a faint, speeding star will notice that it does not wax and wane like the conspicuous rocket that accompanied Sputnik I. This is because its spin stabilization keeps it from tumbling. Its direction, like that of a free gyroscope, is fixed in space. As it rounds the earth, its axis points at the same distant star...