Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowledge only barely exceeds my interest," he said a bit testify when asked who would emerge victorious. "I haven't the faintest idea...
...dark beach of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer have gone, and the fishermen's troglodytic cottages are now replaced by anthill apartment buildings. But to see an Arlesian orchard foaming into April bloom is to glimpse Van Gogh rendering them ("Absolutely clear ... A frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass"). Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil...
First, not since Dick Williams left after the 1968 season have the Red Sox had a manager with the faintest idea of how to hadle his pitching staff. Every year since Babe Ruth left, the knock against the Sox has been their pitching, but it's not that their staff hasn't had good potential, Rick Wise, Juan Marichal, Mike Torrez, Dennis Eckersly Bill Campbell--almost none of them lived up to their expectations, and in almost every case Lee attributes their decline to the manager's handling. And for most his argument seems right on the mark Campbell...
...inviting it not to work. What was galling was the suspicion that they would forgive all sorts of antisocial behavior-shoplifting, say, flagrant adultery, embezzlement and, of course, mugging-provided some acceptable frailty of the psyche or pocketbook could be dredged up to excuse it. Even the faintest suggestion that an individual might be justified or obliged to use violence in defending himself touched some deep root of outrage in his neighbors and his wife...
...other country has a greater stake hi De la Madrid's success than the U.S. Never in more than a half-century has the U.S. faced even the faintest threat of political instability or hostility along either of its two long, undefended borders. That prospect, no matter how remote, has inspired a blend of acute concern and well-intentioned sympathy for Mexico's plight. Says U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin: "We want Mexico to be free, and we want Mexico to be prosperous. Why? Enlightened self-interest...