Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youthfully American scenes: pictures of horses, cowboys, mesas, adobe huts decorated with strings of red chili peppers. The 125 pictures they got in return were startling, not because they were different, but because they were remarkably similar in style. They were amazingly modern and well done, showed only the faintest trace of traditional Oriental art. Instead of stylized cherry trees and dainty bridges, Hiroshima's kids had painted a big, bustling, newly rebuilt city, with humming docks, clattering trolleys, arm-waggling traffic cops. Instead of using the old formal brushwork, they splashed on lively patterns of blazing orange, green...
...could be found in the sixth row center. In the second act, both the play and the playing take on considerably more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest approach to pandemonium; and though the third act is not, like the first, a fiasco, it is run-of-the-mine entertainment...
...should that supply be? In Washington last week, the Office of Defense Mobilization's eight-man Advisory Committee on Production Equipment, headed by Stude-baker's Chairman & President Harold S. Vance, gave a startling answer: nobody seems to have the faintest idea. Furthermore, the military apparently has not taken into consideration the fact that some items could be brought into full production in a few months, while others might require a year or more. Pentagon estimates, said the committee, "call for greater quantities of military hard goods than the supplies of materials and the manpower and production capacity...
...Flexner's disdain. "Not one Etonian or Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
Probably few who cheered the public rallies or signed the protest telegrams had the faintest idea what the Rosenberg case was about. Frame-up, hatemongering, antiSemitism, cried the Communists...