Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior year at Topeka West High School Kevin stated a literary magazine. He still cannot say whether or not he liked it there. Instead, he calls it one of the best schools in Kansas, praise which soon begins to sound faint when tempered with his qualifications. "Did I like my high school--well, it was the home of the Chargers," he tells me. "I'm not sure I can answer that well. I was definitely ready to leave--I don't know how much of that was Topeka...
...took for South Central Los Angeles to lapse into a violent state of anarchy. Four hours -- half a normal patrol shift -- was all the time needed for the Los Angeles Police Department to cede temporary control of the streets to looters and arsonists. Even as the faint traces of smoke still linger in the air, the L.A. riots have begun their transformation from grisly reality to political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton...
Although Tribe also says that the issue of sexism is not particular to the Law School or the Review, he characterizes his judgment as "faint praise...
...involving a domestic dispute at the home of a black family was "right out of Gorillas in the Mist." That's "a racial statement," White pointed out. "You have to wonder what was his motive when he was beating Mr. King." But overall, the defense made no more than faint attempts to show that racial hatred could have inspired the officers to impermissible brutality. That issue will now be central to the civil rights investigation the Justice Department is still pursuing...
Then she cracked a faint smile and in the same friendly, half-joking tone asked, "so here to see all the hicks and rednecks...