Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examine or question the hegemony of these mores, one could reasonably expect more than Daniel's impotent teeth-grinding, Michelle's little huffs and puffs while deep kissing, and Winona's starry-eyed smiles. On the other hand, they are always perfectly dressed and accessorized. One goes positively faint with joy at the heady expanses of Michelle's and Winona's palatial gowns...
...Harvard women's tennis team arrived in Cambridge this week determined to make last year--a season marred by team controversies and unexpected losses--a faint and distant memory...
...Harvard women's tennis team arrived in Cambridge this week determined to make last year--a season marred by team controversies and unexpected losses--a faint and distant memory...
...engineer Grenville Dodge, who drove the original line west. Davidson, once an 18-year-old brakeman on the Missouri Pacific, views the Missouri River bluffs where Abraham Lincoln stood and pointed to the spot where the Union Pacific would begin in 1862. Through Davidson's window come the faint calls of trains hustling along the valley. "I still get emotional when I get on a locomotive and listen to those turbochargers kick in," he says...
...asks Michael Grodin, a professor of medical ethics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health. "He needed someone with a broader perspective . . . to sort things out for him, to ask the right questions of the specialists." Still, no one knew for sure what caused Lewis to faint on that fateful April day. Not even the results of the autopsy, which are expected this week at the earliest, can be guaranteed to provide the answer. Whatever was wrong, says Diaco, Lewis was clearly sicker than anyone thought: "This could have happened to him sleeping in bed or driving...