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Word: faintest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...inspired . . . aptness, or whether you are being completely inept. Often you will find yourself incompetent enough to be fired at once if anybody was intelligent enough to see you as you are. You will find yourself, during your lectures, in your private conferences, quite constantly starting sentences without the faintest idea of where they are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Am I a Fraud? | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...shift occurred last week without the faintest clank in the clockwork. Handsome, curly-haired Clark Clifford would bow out as special counsel to the President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tick, Tock | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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