Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe, but here is Harvard about to play its fourth game of the season, and yet nobody has the faintest idea just how good the Crimson...
Bayou Bombast. Taylor, retaining his aplomb, betrayed the faintest sign of unease only when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the committee's leading supporter of the war, took the floor. After chiding Chairman Fulbright for "making speeches while the witness is answering," Long regaled the committee with pure bayou bombast. "Do you think we are the international bad guy or the international good guy?" he asked. Confronted with this particular blend of jingoism and ingenuousness, the sophisticated Taylor looked as if he wanted to hide. "I hope we are the international good guys," he said with a weak smile...
...aides have made dozens of speeches, talked to hundreds of world leaders and officials. Neither the bombing, the surging U.S. buildup in the past six months, nor the success of the American fighting man against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars had seemed to produce the faintest waver in Communist intent...
...receiver capable of picking up such distant signals is already within the technological capability of man, Oliver believes. He proposes an array of 10,000 dish antennas, each 100 ft. in diameter. With such an enormously sensitive radio telescope, he says, astronomers would be able to pinpoint the faintest radio signals coming down from space...
Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...