Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokunaga, faint and trembling, went on about her business. That evening she went to her husband's drygoods store, was surprised to see the shutter closed. A clerk burst into tears when he saw her. Her husband had been in the train. With him died 103 other men & women, including three American soldiers...
...Parliament on its modern course as a democratic house. George Romney's portrait of him almost succeeds in characterizing a sitter whose character was not yet evident. He caught Charles Grey's idealism as well as his pride, conveyed both in the open brow, direct glance and faint curl of the lips...
Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the man & woman before him. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in a hoarse, faint voice. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb . . . has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea . . . and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason...
Army doctors in Oklahoma City were puzzled. When Jack Husband, a healthy strapping, 20-year-old sophomore from Southwestern State College, presented himself for his pre-induction physical, they could hear a faint, metallic ticking that seemed to come from inside Jack's head. It was clearly audible four inches from his left ear; it could be heard, but more faintly, on the other side. When Jack insisted that the ticking had never bothered or pained him, the doctors passed him, and he now expects to be called for limited duty at the end of his college year...
...waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...