Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not get "directly involved," the President emphasized, adding carefully, "We personally prefer that the Shah maintain a major role in the government, but that is a decision for the Iranian people to make." Later, when it became obvious that the President had damned the Shah with faint praise, the White House insisted that U.S. policy toward Iran was not indecisive and had not changed...
Saying that the Winthrop House one-acts are enjoyable amateur productions may sound like faint praise, but it really isn't. No one was pretending to be anything they weren't and everyone in the place had a good time. In this case that means success. Which means if you need a good laugh and have had enough deep meaning for one week, go see God die at Winthrop...
...gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...
Reaching out to the edges of the known universe (10 billion light years), the observatory's x-ray telescope will be able to detect and study radiat resources at thousand times faint than those observed previously. Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and director of the new satellite (dubbed the "Einstein Observatory"), said last week...
...time, plague was in the air, and the death of kings implied an unimaginable catastrophe. Racism and superstition prevailed. Occupations that are now obsolete dot his plays: cooper, wheelwright, alchemist, bellman. His language glitters with marvelous words that have, alas, also become obsolete: porpentine (porcupine); swound (faint); german (akin); caitiff (wretch); borthens (the hair of corpses); grise (a stair); bisson (blind). However immortal, Shakespeare, no less than Aristophanes or Mozart, needs his modern interpreters...