Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never know what's coming next in the Army. If you're going to be shipped, you get a half-hour's notice, and even then you haven't the faintest idea where you're going. You'll line up several times a day without knowing what the formation...
...called on Ambassador William H. Standley in Kuibyshev, the Ambassador suggested that Graebner visit the nearby Greek Orthodox church: "It's one of the things you can do in Kuibyshev." The Intourist guide to whom Graebner applied for information about hours of services said she had not the faintest idea...
...cause of hemisphere' solidarity- Mexico, more than any other Latin American country, has been fronting for the U.S-it was indeed fine to have what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the so-called petroleum question" out of the way. The faintest suggestion that Uncle Shylock was more interested in his pound of flesh than in winning the war might destroy the whole Good Neighbor structure...
With the freezing of Axis funds in the U.S., the German-American Bund, Axis propagandists, many an agent of espionage suddenly found no funds. Banks stopped withdrawals from any accounts that gave off the faintest Axis whiff. Also hit by the order were many an irreproachable corporation, foreign interest, alien shopkeeper, citizen. Shocked and shaken was Mrs. Abby Morrison Ricker, Manhattan socialite, daughter and granddaughter of bank presidents, who awoke one morning to discover that checks she had written were bouncing. She had returned a month ago from a two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy, had forgotten...
...case, a student received tutoring from a graduate who was enrolled in the same course, and in his own words, "I knew more about it than he did." Some men, in answering the poll, wrote that the supervisor assigned to them had not the faintest idea of the arrangement of the course, or even of the material it covered...