Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...
...switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would...
...faint chorus of critics asked by what token the U. S. Navy Department was bearing the cost of the wholly unofficial Hoover trip. The Prince of Wales, it was pointed out, paid $25,000 out of his own pocket for his African tour, though he went as an official ambassador from Britain...
...damningly faint praise accorded dead Benjamin Strong by the potent Journal may give Gates W. McGarrah pause. Some think he, now Acting Governor, will soon be confirmed as Governor...
...field's edges, towards the goals. From time to time they returned to their paddock and other ponies took their places on the hoof-tracked turf. When the game was over, the ponies returned to their stables hungry and tired. After eating well they slept, flicking their ears at faint sounds in the pungent darkness...