Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had once known as his own terrible purpose... He had thought within him to oppose the jihad, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he had already become...
...Cambridge area, the ?? will cover some 96 per cent of ??sun-not quite enough to see the ??s faint corona, the shifting halo ??onized gases that extends millions miles from the sun's surface. But ?? Nantucket Island, the eclipse will match totality for about two minutes. ?? the sky is clear, thousands of New England sun-watchers will crowd the ?? antiquate ferry or fly out to the island ??or those two minutes. Executive Air-??nes regularly scheduled flights have been sold out for weeks, and several ?? ter airlines have assigned their en-??re flees to ferrying eclipse-watchers ??om mainland points...
...moon will completely cover the sun off the Massachusetts coast. The sky will grow so dark that photographers may need a flashlight to change their camera settings. Venus, Mercury, and some of the stars will be visible. The faint corona will appear to extend about four solar diameters from the sun's edge, and reddish prominence of glowing hydrogen gas will occasionally bubble up around the moon. Ground temperatures may drop ten or 15 degrees, and even in Cambridge, the partial eclipse may cause a drop of a degree or two. Greenhouse flowers may lose their petals. Some birds will...
...Still Harvard can scarcely afford to be smug. Overconfidence lost them the first contest with the Quakers, and almost a second against Northeastern a fortnight ago. It is a possibility, although some-what faint, that the same will happen tonight-that Penn will fully expect to duplicate its upset, and that Harvard will feel that it cannot possibly happen twice...
dines with in the Adams House Dining Room, than the trivialized hippies they portray in Hair. . After two years, they still sense a faint idealism that a part in Hair is qualitatively different for an actor of our generation than another Broadway role. But the Hair people have no pretensions about being the vanguard of American youth on the eve of the Aquarium...