Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Ford Foundation). "Religiosity-or the God-bit, as it is called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification of our national cause, our needs, our ends-conceived in political and military terms -with God's cause, His needs and His ends . . . Certain...
...accounted for, the bandits entered, herded eleven people into a 6 by 5 ft. vault, whose inner gate they locked with a chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with $305,243 in bills...
Great telescopes such as the 200-incher on Palomar Mountain were designed for gathering faint starlight from a wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a practical length of time. The limit of this method has probably been reached; big telescopes are wickedly expensive and hard to build. So forward-looking astronomers are now looking for other ways to brighten a telescopic image...
...promising new method uses an "electronic screen intensifier" developed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Russell H. Morgan and Ralph Sturm. Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras. The tube scans (in 1,029 "lines" instead of the standard 525) the image and turns it into fluctuations of an electric signal...
...Faint Shadows. In an ordinary TV setup this signal would be far too weak to be turned back into an image on the face of the picture tube, but Morgan and Sturm have learned how to amplify it enormously. They can put their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes. The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope...