Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth floor of a St. Louis office building, the newest Wellsian brain in the earthly world was enthroned. This quintessential brain looked like nothing more than a collection of filing cases, stretching in a 60-ft. semicircle about the room. From within the grey metal cases came a faint humming sound; along the light-studded metallic face were scores of twinkling orange sparks, rippling like waves of thought. As in the Grand Lunar's palace, a blaze of light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy pink. Air conditioning filtered out the dust, kept the temperature...
...continued observations with a given apparatus for a very long time, what changes would we see?" asks Gold. As billions follow billions of years, the most distant galaxies slip over the edge of the universe as their light becomes too feeble to be observed. Faint nearby galaxies grow brighter as they collect more matter. As the space between them expands, new galaxies are born to glow faintly in the new space...
Verbum Sap. In San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, after he had caused Masima Siena, 23, to faint by saying "no" when asked if he took her to be his lawful wedded wife, Bridegroom Urbano Biase, 29, explained that it was only a warning to keep Masima in line, returned to the church and went through with the ceremony...
Yours is the finest hatchet job I have ever read on two of the best maverick minds that any one state ever succeeded in corralling ...Why make it appear criminal for Morse to use that "brilliant mind" which you praise with faint damns? Why sanctify party loyalty over intelligence...
...intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still has far to go and little time...