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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...
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...
...Ghosts in olive drab and sky blue and German grey pass before our eyes; voices that have stolen away in the echoes from the battlefield no more ring out. The faint, far whisper of forgotten songs no longer floats through the air. Youth . . . strength . . . aspirations . . . struggles . . . triumphs . . . despairs . . . wide winds sweeping . . . beacons flashing across uncharted depths . . . movements . . . vividness . . . radiance . . . shadows . . . faint bugles sounding reveille ... far drums beating the long roll ... the crash of guns . . . the rattle of musketry ... the still white crosses . . . And now we are met to remember...
That, plus the fact that he had been picked up crossing a bridge on the Yugoslav border, was all that the authorities knew or could guess about Janos. A fellow refugee, a draftsman from Budapest, had invented the name for him. A faint look of pleasure in Janos' eyes seemed to indicate that he could hear, and that he liked the name. The mystery of his real identity and origin remained...