Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Guard serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant...
...Fears & Hesitations. In France, the opponents of EDC and the damners-with-faint-praise are motivated by a weird variety of fears and hesitations. Some despise and distrust Germany, and that overrides everything else; some (including Premier Joseph Laniel, who has made a career these past seven months of political survival) think of EDC as a dose of unpleasant medicine, to be stalled off as long as possible; some think that French sovereignty and pride outweigh considerations of security; some want to toy with the alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees...
Johnnie Walker, Red. The faint suggestion of a smile worked at the corners of Molotov's mouth as he left the third day's proceedings: Was he mistaken, or had Britain and France seemed not quite so anxious as the U.S. to shut him up and move on? At the delegates' bar, where Eden and Bidault sipped cocktails and Dulles munched a sandwich, Molotov confidently downed two shots of Johnnie Walker (Red Label...
...sample containing Carbon 14 (perhaps from a Sumerian tomb) is dissolved in a hydrocarbon fluid in a 4-in. tube. Radiation from its unstable atoms makes the liquid give flashes of light. They are too faint for human eyes to see, but photomultiplier tubes pick them up. The whole system is immersed in liquid mercury. As a further safeguard, the counting apparatus is adjusted so that it ignores all flashes of light too weak or too strong to come from Carbon...
...talk to Josephine. He broke into the basement of her Brooklyn home, stole up toward her bedroom and was pounced upon by her indignant father. At week's end, Sigmund Welt was being held at Kings County Hospital for observation, while Josephine held out only a faint hope of a happy ending. Said she: "Well, yes, I do still love him, but how can I tell what we'll do? Time will tell...