Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left, frustration and disillusionment grew, despite its edge in opinion polls. On the right, last week, there was a faint flicker of hope. At a Paris dinner party, a wealthy baron confided that he had just placed a bet of $10,000 with Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, on a victory for the present government. The odds: 4 to 5. The left's chances were rated at dead even. The baron explained that he was not counting on any change in voter sentiment. The left would lose, he said, because after the first round of voting, the Communists would refuse...
Joel's best songs have the brash humor, the sad, sometimes lavish sentiment that still stirs faint echoes of the boys down on the corner, harmonizing on the Top 40. Raised in a solidly middle-class section of Hicksville, Long Island, Joel, 28, began piano lessons at four, but also boxed in school and hung out with the sort of hell raisers that would have made Virginia's mother double-lock the door. Here is how he tells it: "You got into junior high, you could go one of three ways. You could be a collegiate, a hitter...
...past decade, he has discovered one comet and five more that had somehow been "lost" as well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding stars. Last week Kowal announced an even more remarkable sighting: a small, faint object orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It could be the solar system's tenth planet...
Kowal's latest finding was based on photographs taken in mid-October through the Hale Observatories' 122-cm. (48-in.) Schmidt telescope atop California's Mount Palomar. A microscopic examination of photographic plates exposed on successive nights revealed a short, faint trail of light between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus; the object that made it appeared to be moving in relation to the stars that formed the background. Kowal promptly called Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., for help in verifying his discovery. Marsden, who serves as a clearinghouse...
...faint stir...