Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly, the Class of '32 realized that it had taken its last examinations and that its freshman year was over. It prepared to move out of the dormitories on the Charlesbank, though many had a faint premonition that they might return to them again. Glancing cautiously over its shoulder at University Hall, 1932 realized it could never be sure that was to happen...
...anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank. "I don't believe it," exclaimed one veteran mountaineer. "That woman can't be alive...
...Little Sense of Destiny. At N.Y.U. Heald faced a different sort of problem- a huge (35,000 students) university with six scattered campuses and only a faint sense of entity. Heald rallied the alumni for the first time, boosted their annual giving from $140,000 to $400,000 a year. He eliminated departmental duplication, persuaded students to consolidate their activities (e.g., the university had four student newspapers), raised $44.5 million, which was more than had come in in all the previous 25 years. But his real achievement was something more intangible: restoring to students, facultymen and alumni faith...
...sounded unhappy about the write-off. He said that FPC licensed the dams "on the premise that financing was going to be conventional.'' Though FPC knew that Idaho Power had applied for rapid amortization four years ago, it accepted the company's statement that there was "faint" chance of getting it, even defended the license in court on the ground that no Government money was involved. Embarrassed, Kuykendall admitted that "we made a mistake." It was a sizable...
...Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...