Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th Mass son of Oliver Wendell Holmes M.D. Boston," He later explained in his Civil War Diary. "I wrote the above when I was lying in a little house on the held of Antietam which was for a while within the enemy's lines as I thought I might faint and so be unable to tell...
...accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat and flex their knees to relieve the physical and mental strain. Scuffles and raised voices are rare, but they have happened when someone tries to jump the line. "Sometimes a lady will faint," says Bill Peters, 34, the office manager, "but in all my time here [18 months], I've seen only one punch thrown...
...sport is not for the faint of heart or the weak of wallet. Skates can cost upwards of $100, gloves $65, shin pads $35, protective pants $50, helmet $22, elbow pads $20, shoulder pads $25, a stick $8, and other accessories $25. The parents of a small-scale Bernie Parent have to shell out even more. Goalie leg pads alone cost up to $150. Yet even in the depths of recession, business has never been better. At the Boston Bruins Pro Shop, sales of equipment are up 57% over last winter. At Atlanta's Igloo Ice Skating Rink, parents...
...Crimson racketmen will try to avenge their last league loss to Princeton and keep a faint hope for a share of the Ivy title when they do battle with a powerful Quaker team in Philadelphia this afternoon...
...computer-generated mosaic of Betelgeuse was only 2½ in. in diameter, but detailed enough to show faint markings that the scientists think may be large hot spots in its atmosphere, perhaps gases erupting violently from the interior. Nothing on quite so dramatic a scale has been observed on the sun, which is in a more sedate stage of its evolution...