Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finally, faint radio signals from a radio range came in over his set. Blair homed in on them, crossed Alaska's northern coastline just one minute off his schedule. He refueled near Fairbanks, roared east at 25,000 feet across Canada, munching a roast beef sandwich between gulps of oxygen. Nine hours later, he set his Mustang down on the runway at New York's Idlewild airport. He was the first man ever to fly solo across the hazardous North Pole route in a single-engined plane...
Iran's frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq last week left the Parliament building, where he had been holed up for 20 days in fear of assassins, and moved back to his home. The Iranian situation, for weeks as black as oil, was getting just a shade brighter...
...long time that the photochemical action in the rods is connected in some way with a red substance, rhodopsin, which forms in the rods when the light gets dim. This is how eyes become "dark-adapted." Only when their rods are well fortified with rhodopsin can they respond to faint glimmers of light...
...Smail's review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure...
...needs a dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage"; I do not challenge his right to use an obscure word like "susurrus" (though he will be losing readers by doing so) but I do ask that he not use it in a phrase like "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which makes a mockery out of the English language. He might renounce exclamation points and obscure Latin quotations, too, while he is about it. This petulance must not be taken to mean that the current reviews are poor jobs. On the contrary, they seem quite intelligent. All they needed...