Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There it was, against the fireplace, and there seemed to be scarcely anything else in the room except the sunny light on the floor. It was very long and dark; smooth like a boat; with bright handles. Half the top was open. There was a strange, sweet smell, so faint that it could scarcely be realized. Rufus had never known such stillness. Their little sounds, as they approached, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water. There was his head, his arms; suit; there he was ... He saw him much more clearly than...
Mother cried, in accents faint...
...country's economy is still forcing basic changes. Last week in Paris Erhard threw his powerful support behind the plan to set up a free-trade area comprising eleven European nations (notably Britain) besides the Common Market's six. Always, to Europe's Socialists and faint of heart, he preaches his doctrine: "The most successful means for the achievement and retention of prosperity is competition. Only by competition can an economy expand to serve all people, especially in their capacity as consumers, and dissolve all advantages which do not result directly from higher performance. Free competition thus...
...dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful whirlpools of dankly greasy, black grass hair, that it was an insult to the Creator not to fondle"). Caitlin...
...like everything that happens in the Middle East, every action compels counteraction, and the Syrian coup involves dangers as well as advantages for Russia. The faint-seeming response so far by the other Arab states and by the West is to the Syrian coup a recognition that a counter-show of force is not the best answer. Instead the need was to rally together all the discordant and touchy elements in the Middle East that can be united on the simple proposition of keeping any "imperialism." including Communism, out of their territory...