Word: fainted
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...interminable regimen of Army inoculations. A medical attendant punctures the recruit's arm with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...
...gloomy seascape where the U-boat rides, some faint illumination glimmered last week...
...Door Shuts. Arrest came to Author Koestler with the words "Hands up!", and he learned how it feels to have a revolver chilling the back of one's neck. Near the base of his skull he felt "a faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant." At the police station his hypodermic needles and morphine tablets (for suicide) and his golf stockings (he wore them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners...
...spring picture of gamboling lambs. The lambs were shorn just before his arrival, so he returned, pictureless and disgruntled, to the station and was astonished to see the meeting of Molotov and Anthony Eden. Molotov smiled broadly as, grey-suited and hatless, he stepped from the train in a faint drizzle...
...remembered the empty paint-mattress-mothballs smell of his Freshman room on the first day, the peculiarly strong wet-earth odor of the Yard after a heavy rain, the mustiness of Sever, and the faint atmosphere of crumbling newsprint that he'd stumbled on when he'd made his only pilgrimage to floor D in the Widener stacks...