Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft's faint but conscious thoughts about being President came in 1936. That year, as a successful Cincinnati corporation lawyer who had served four terms in the state legislature, he was Ohio's favorite son. After he was elected to the U.S. Senate two years later, the thoughts became less faint. "A Senator has only one one-hundredth of the affirmative power of the President," he said, "and I suppose, like any Senator, I began to think about the presidency...
...when Dr. de la Füye stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived...
...laboratory at the University of Chicago, a pinch of powdered carbon was placed in a radiation counter. Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby carefully measured its faint radioactivity,* made his calculation and gave his verdict: the charred oak from which the carbon came was 3,800 years old-give or take about 275 years...
Something different happened. Bureaumen Ross Bateman and G. Franklin Montgomery had little trouble picking up the Cedar Rapids signal. Slanting down from above, it was faint but continuous...
...faint cry of "track" floated down from the foggy heights. Dartmouth's Robert Stewart shot down the mountain's face, flashed narrowly through the ravine and across the flat into the tricky turns on the wooded trail. He was averaging better than 50 miles an hour...