Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...
Ezra Pound, Idaho-born expatriate poet, scholar and cantankerous crackpot, opponent of "the God-damned system that makes one war after another," arrived in Washington to be tried for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Italy). "Does anyone have the faintest idea what I actually said in Rome?" he asked. "Get over the idea that I betrayed anybody...
...tough, 35-year-old radio engineer. He had learned communications well in seven years with Telefunken, German radio corporation in Peru. He had been interned in Texas, after arrest by Peruvian authorities in 1942, had stayed long enough to pick up U.S. colloquialisms, and spoke English with only the faintest of accents. Repatriated, he had been tried and proved as a courier between Berlin and Madrid. Then he was accepted for more dangerous duty...
...Your story "Mahout" [TIME, Feb. 14] infuriated me. . . . I mean no reflection on TIME'S reporting of the facts-for facts they are-but rather an anger at the inference . . . that the average American is confused and hasn't the faintest idea of what he wants in a new national Administration. That is not true...
Without the faintest notion how they might be built, he predicted radio loud speakers, chain broadcasting (in 1909), visible radio waves (now accomplished by the cathode-ray oscilloscope), television (his friends credit him with coining the word). In one of Gernsback's first science fiction stories (1911), a character futuristically named Ralph 1240 41+ drained a dog's blood, filled its veins with a mythical preservative called "Radium-K bromide" and three years later restored the dog to life by pumping blood back-a fantasy which Gernsback claims has been fully validated by recent Soviet dog-reviving experiments...