Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attained through any race in armaments. The munitions of peace are justice, honesty, mutual understanding and respect for others. So believing and so motivated, the United States will leave no stone unturned to work for peace. We shall reject no method however novel, that holds out any hope however faint, for a just and lasting peace...
Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown...
...months he signed up only 78 members, half of them in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel plant, which Reuther decided to strike. "We needed drama," he later explained. "We had a big Polish gal who had fainted on the assembly line. We assigned her to 'faint' again. Someone else was to shut down the assembly line." Next day the Polish girl fainted on schedule, the switches were pulled, and the cry arose: "Strike! Strike!" Soon the plant's 5,000 men were milling around Reuther, who delivered a rousing speech while an anxious manager tugged at his coatsleeves...
Except for the small and fleeting spot, the scene must be shot in darkness, because even faint light from any other source upsets the phototubes. But actors and other performers cannot work in darkness; they have to have a little light to see their way around...
...just as sadly deficient in these departments as in all the others. Peter Gennaro's choreography seems to have been inspired by one of Ed Sullivan's worst variety programs. His vaudeville approach is particularly apparent in the faulty integration of dances and plot, which sometimes raises the faint suspicion that the dancers got lost in the wrong...