Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are no daring tricks, no point when all the stops are pulled out. Only two changes in the text were made--one of them an update of a now long-forgotten reference to a London firm, the other a hilarious interjection into the outstanding number of the evening, "Faint heart never won fair lady." Zax, Lewis and Crowley collaborate in a dance number of staggering virtuosity whose best parts don't really begin until the song itself is over. It's all in the encores. What looks on paper and sounds on recordings like a fairly tedious number becomes...
...want a book that will be read and not studied. They succeed. They select what they consider to be the best of the Adams correspondence and add letters to outsiders, diary entries and autobiographical selections. The result is a smooth reading narrative that carries the reader from the first faint glimmerings of trouble with England into the frantic months of Independence and beyond...
...have found a socially acceptable cover for profound psychopathy−or both. Kesey also understood that a belief in the possibility of rebellion is essential to modern man, a fallback position that can be taken up when despair threatens to turn into self-destruction. It is to restore that faint possibility for his fellow inmates that McMurphy ultimately acts without understanding what he is doing. The revolt he leads can only put him under the lobotomizer's knife. Instead, to keep hope alive, his friend, an Indian named Chief Bromden, kills him: if McMurphy is a martyr, his deeds...
Worse, there are only faint and flickering signs of revival in most nations except for the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, Japan. Economists generally do not expect any real upturn in European business until mid-1976-and they worry that even then the recovery may be so weak that, in the words of OECD Secretary-General Emile van Lennep, "it would not gather momentum and might peter out." One reason: the recession has pushed the volume of world trade 10% below the 1974 level, the first decline since World War II. The drop has a vicious-circle effect...
...officials indicated that real gross national product-total output of goods and services, discounted to remove the effects of price increases-grew at an annual rate of roughly 10% during the third quarter. Official preliminary estimates will be released this week. During the second quarter, the first in which faint signs of recovery were visible, real G.N.P. rose at an annual rate of 1.9%; in the first quarter, the bottom of the recession, it plunged at an annual rate...