Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question period that followed his speech. Mendès-France answered the reporters' queries expertly. The final question was a stinger-"Do you think Mr. Dulles would be happier if you were ousted as Premier?"-and Mendès read it with a faint smile. "My suggestion to the author of this very interesting question," he said, "is: the best way to know the answer is to ask Mr. Dulles...
...terrible book," says Yerby now. "I was in love with Bessemer furnaces - an unrewarding kind of a romance." Yerby then made his decision. He quit his foundry job and went to New York. He told the Dial Press's George Joel, the only publisher who had shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned out in one night (by day Yerby worked in a plane factory), Joel gave him a $250 advance. The book became The Foxes of Harrow...
Although he was not even on the ballot, Dewey in effect was fighting for his political life in the New York gubernatorial election. Presidential ambitions die hard in American politicians. Even Dewey, that most realistic of political realists, still seems to cherish a faint hope, despite his two earlier defeats. At least he seems to have cherished it until November...
...interrupted by Cabinet members, e.g., Treasury Secretary George Humphrey asked what the Paris agreement would cost the U.S. and Dulles replied: "It isn't going to cost us a nickel extra." Later, Dulles confessed that "I was going to say $6 billion. Then Humphrey was going to faint, and we were going to carry him out in front of everybody...
...back. He reported to Molotov that the U.S. would refuse to sign the same document as Red China, but would issue a unilateral declaration stating that the U.S. would take a serious view of any violation of an agreed armistice. Molotov accepted this formula with only faint protest. "Ouf!" exclaimed Mendès in relief...