Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bradley died in the mad sea. Cries of struggling sailors grew fainter; the buoy flares were snuffed out. The three men on the raft spotted Deck Hand Dennis Meredith and pulled him aboard. They found five flares and a sea anchor inside the hatch of the raft. It was more than an hour later that they saw a rescue ship, the German motor vessel Christian Sartori. Fleming shot four flares, but the Sartori did not see them. Still the rescue ship, rolling as much as 50°, plunged toward the raft...
...tells the Wanderer her story, and when it is done her witless godchild (or was it a goat-child?) has disappeared. The outcast Pythia and the outcast Jew follow his footprints up the mountainside. They grow fainter and fainter, finally disappear altogether. Then she knows. "The father has fetched him home...
Like a receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
...given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars are also colliding galaxies. Since the radio waves created in some unknown way by such collisions penetrate much farther than light, they offer a means to investigate space much more deeply than optical telescopes...
...message. Scott Fitzgerald, says Jacques Barzun, put that message in an epigram: " 'America is a willingness of the heart.' After his death, a hundred thousand more Europeans, forlorn, fleeing wanderers, found out what he meant. To us who came before them, the meaning is not fainter, though more familiar, and we scarcely need Emerson's gentle reminder and advice: 'The ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are, and if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best...