Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither do U.S. readers, to most of whom the word "poet" still carries a faint suggestion of pale hands, purple passions and flowing ties. They understand what he writes-or understand enough of it to like what they understand. They find his dialogue poems as invigorating as a good argument, his lyrics as engaging, sometimes as magical, as Mother Goose. In a literary age so preoccupied with self-expression that it sometimes seems intent on making the reader feel stupid, Robert Frost has won him by treating him as an equal...
First, there was the possibility, however faint, that the North Korcan leaders would have heeded General MacArthur's surrender appeal and given in to the U.N. armies within a short time. In that event the peaceful occupation of North Korea would have been less subject to misinterpretation than the present armed entry...
...Aurora Borealis is caused by something, presumably hydrogen, that is shot out of sunspots. For one thing, bright auroras generally appear about 15 hours after a sunspot has moved to a point on the sun directly opposite the earth. But proof was lacking; even the brightest auroras were too faint and diffuse to be studied spectrographically by existing instruments. Last week the proof was in hand: a few smudged bands on two photographic plates...
...Korean army for bravery and effectiveness, and exempts its soldiers from the accusation of cruelty heaped upon the police ... It may perhaps, in a measure, be due to the three years' training of the South Korean soldier under capable and understanding American officers and noncommissioned officers. Possibly some faint idea of-I will not say democracy-human fellowship may have seeped...
...flush. Dr. Lincoln notes that the best description of this symptom was given to her by an ex-logger, a 200-lb. man of 65: "Suddenly a wave of heat sweeps up from the soles of my feet to the crown of my head. I get kind of faint and I can't think straght. It only lasts a few seconds." Injections of male sex hormones, Author Lincoln reports, gave him "dramatic relief...