Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private little war with the weather, and sometimes the weatherman, trying to determine whether to call a concert off or take a chance. She cheerfully admits: "It's too much of a job for an old crow like me." And then cheerfully adds that she has not the faintest notion of giving...
Henry Adams had damned the place with the faintest of praise. "Harvard College," he wrote, "was probably less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...while, it appeared that the days of the Stutz Bearcat and the soon coat were gone forever--even from the country club environs of the Dartmouths. There was little hoopla--no sabotage. The Harvard rally had gone off as scheduled Friday night, John Harvard was unsullied by even the faintest tinge of green, and silence reigned through the long, cold pre-game night...
...engine now has the fierce beauty of power. Its massive rotor, the principal moving part, is spinning some 13,000 times per minute (though with only the faintest vibration). The fire raging in its heart would heat 1,000 five-room houses in zero weather (though much of the engine's exterior is cool). From the air intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding...
Despite a real knack for phrasemaking and some fine whimsical Irish fun, Where Stars Walk hasn't the faintest sense of direction, nor the slightest conception of time...