Word: faintings
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Later Miss Cannon published additional classifications of 50,000 faint stars. Much of her work is still stored in the relatively new astrophysical building which now houses the half million phtographs that have accumulated throughout the years...
Talk about "damning with faint praise"-you couldn't have ruined Kefauver's chances more if you'd taken a meat...
...almost hear the faint, far whisper of their forgotten songs. Youth, strength, aspirations, struggles, triumphs, despairs, wide winds sweeping, beacons flashing across uncharted depths, faint bugles sounding reveille, far drums beating the long roll, the wail of sirens, the crash of guns, the thud of bombs, the rattle of musketry-the still white crosses...
...plaintive cry falls not on deaf ears. Of a sudden, there is a subtle, barely perceptible murmur in the town--a faint rustling, and in the distance, the monotonous scrape-scrape of steel wool on long forgotten hope chests...
...Gritting her teeth as if in pain, she bent her lower body, making a sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side up for a bat) and folded a wing around her offspring...