Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College students, already lost in a swirl of conflicting draft and reserve programs, can take some faint measure of hope from the fact that the Universal Military Training plan which has just been submitted to Congress will almost surely not affect them. But those interested in the nation's struggle to get an adequate Army in a hurry will notice that UMT as proposed to Congress is no solution...
...bonuses for drillers and a golf course for his Negro servants. The Ladder became a favorite target for reviewers' darts, and Davis had to give away tickets to provide an audience. He squandered $1,300,000 on it before it closed in 1927 to the faint applause of 54 nonpaying guests...
...your Sept. 10 issue, the reference to "Sophocles Venizelos, a bridge-playing, bumbling, well-intentioned Liberal," leaves me baffled. Do you mean that you're for him or ag'in' him? I thought, at first reading, that you were trying to damn him with faint praise; then I wondered if you might not be trying to praise him with faint damns. Surely even a Liberal ought to have good intentions; and what does bridge-playing indicate in a politician,.except maybe a liking for bridge? And when you say that he bumbles . . . what is it that...
Last week, when it seemed that the Gómez scandals had long since become nothing more than talk for oldtimers, there came a faint but ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...
...been too long underrated. They began buying up the best examples they could find. As they prowled from dealer to dealer, prices rose, and so did the reputations of such little-known artists as John Quidor, Martin Johnson Heade and Fitz Hugh Lane. Less affluent collectors, sniffing the same faint scents, helped stir the interest of attic rummagers...