Word: fainted
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...that the receivers and tape recorders had been installed in the little gatehouse. The equipment was mediocre, and the eavesdropping was quite careless. The guards sometimes substituted music tapes for the blank recording tapes to while away the long evenings. When they did, we could make out the faint melodies through the walls of Father's room; the microphones had become speakers. A couple of times, on hearing the music, I pretended to be surprised and proposed searching for the source. A moment later, the music would stop...
...sweeping victory in this weekend's elections. Not even the opposition parties seriously deny that likelihood, although they have hopes that Iliescu will be forced into a runoff for the presidency by failing to win more than 50% of the vote in the first round. It seems a faint hope -- perhaps as faint as the long-term prospects for Western-style democracy in Romania...
...what if I tend to faint at the sight of blood? So what if I refuse to play frisbee because my mom once knew someone who lost an eye in a freak frisbee accident? People with low pain thresholds happen to make very careful doctors...
This incident of bias and closed mindedness by the Crimson in many ways explains why we at AALARM have banded together. Harvard University can be seen as a forum for many voices. The individiual students' voices are faint and rarely heard. But the voices of student organizations, publications and the Faculty and administration are strong...
...highway system. It is home to two-fifths of the Keating Five (Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain), to Barry Goldwater (considered left of center by many natives), and to the nation's first impeached Governor in 59 years, Evan Mecham. It is not a place for the politically faint of heart...