Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first names. Johnson ducked questions with easy bluffness that politicians understand. "Do you still beat your wife?" he countered to one loaded question. At times, he talked about himself in the third person with the air of a man watching himself from the wings of history, a faint, fond smile on his lips...
Then, in true thriller fashion, U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady rode to the rescue-or temporary rescue. He sent a go-between to the bedside of frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who was so weak that the doctors gave him a transfusion (seeing that it was American plasma, Mossadeq cracked:"Do you think it will make me more reasonable?"). On Grady's plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging...
After Blobel, the other six went to the platform in alphabetical order. Each had an unrepentant last message. Werner Braune, who had murdered thousands of Jews and gypsies, shouted: "Kameraden, es lebe Deutschland!" (Comrades, long live Germany). Faint echoing cries came back through the thick walls from war criminals who are serving prison, terms. Cried Hans Schmidt, former adjutant at Buchenwald: "Like me you are obeying orders . . . I am dying innocent...
...sleepless flight from New York, ailing Heiress Barbara Hutton, 38, was dismayed to find the press on hand: "Oh, why can't you leave me alone? Why are you always after me? This doesn't happen even in America . . . I feel like I'm going to faint . . . Why doesn't somebody do something? Why doesn't somebody get me a chair...
When the mixture is exposed to light, even very faint light, all the chemical processes go into reverse. The rhodopsin divides into retinene and opsin. The retinene reverts to vitamin A. This is just what happens when light shines into a dark-adapted eye: the rhodopsin in the rods is suddenly decomposed...