Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such running about the house wiring this and that, including trees, and I am indebted to Mr. Murrow. I live alone; I was not surrounded by friends and family; there was just myself tiptoeing downstairs and hoping to God that things would go right. I hadn't the faintest idea what questions Mr. Murrow would...
Obviously, the ultimate goal is prevention. Here cancer offers its usual paradoxes. There is no faintest clue as to how most of the commonest forms can be prevented; yet in those cases where trigger mechanisms have been spotted, preventive measures have been more effective than against any other disease. Scrotum cancer of U.S. oil workers, from a wax-pressing process, has been wiped out (as was chimney sweeps' cancer) by keeping the dangerous chemical at a distance. So has bladder cancer in the dye industry. Circumcision and scrupulous cleanliness markedly reduce a man's risk of cancer...
...took over as Acting Secretary, Herter strained to avoid even the faintest appearance of grasping for his ailing boss's job. He refused, for example, to hold a single press conference. But Herter liked the job, and his friends knew it. After he sat in as the U.S. delegate at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Washington (TIME, April 13), he won high praise for his professional polish from some of Europe's top diplomats...
...carries him, as Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce from Judy, and love and tragedy with Brenda Marshall, a heroine as high-minded as himself. The third dream sweeps Johnny on to fulfillment as the senior pilot of Aus-Can Airline and to the faintest hint of incest as, all unknowing, he falls in love with his own daughter. But sex in a Shute novel is so aseptic that this episode could scarcely offend an encampment of campfire girls...
...second play is the more important one. Citing it in a recent article in the New York Times the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young...