Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wood-Breakers. The faint aura of unworldliness that clings to him, however, is mostly illusion; the Sikorsky imagination may soar, but he is a practical, enduring, even stubborn man. Though his colleagues call him "Uncle Igor" behind his back, nearly all United Aircraft officials call him Mr. Sikorsky to his face. His career has spanned virtually the entire history of flight...
...pessimism was misplaced. Ever since the days of another Balkan Queen, Marie of Rumania, storming the sentimental citadel of U.S. republicanism has become a required skill for European monarchs. Americans, denying themselves the luxury of a monarch of their own, usually capitulate to visiting crowned heads without even a faint show of resistance. In addition, 36-year-old Frederika of Greece and her handsome husband, King Paul, have already captured an impressive array of U.S. hostages in their homeland...
...harsh, opinionated young man, tormented for nearly 35 years by poverty but prepared promptly to sacrifice a hard-earned medical reputation to an audacious theory. Freud was quarrelsome, prone to tantrums when crossed. Once, opposed in an argument by Carl Jung, he fell on the floor in a dead faint. Far from being a "calm scientist," he deliberately sought out the extremes of love and hate. Observing that all the men he respected had "a characteristic manner," he made a mannerism of his "native tendency to uprightness and honesty"-and threw it in the face of the world to take...
...still a far-flung outpost, tempest-lashed in a Red sea. Cold war is its way of life and the Iron Curtain its backyard fence, yet in five years as mayor, Reuter refused to accept his city as an island. "Call it a spearhead," he said with a faint grin, and by his courage he made...
...citizenship, notably the vote. The voting privilege will start at 21 for single men or women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico's predominantly Roman Catholic women would rush out to form an all powerful, pro-clerical party...