Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studied elegance. The Congressmen could probably accept all of that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded as the moral niceties of the question merely embarrassed them more. In their eyes, he had thus become a political liability...
...recall that the muscles on my legs and shoulders began to get cramped and to tremble, that my two fingers began to bend down under the pressure, to get red all over and to ache, I remember that I was drenched with sweat and that I began to faint, although I had not exerted myself in any way. If I would try to substitute [fingers], I would be instantly called to order . . . And when the trembling increased up to the point when I collapsed, they made me sit and speak. I did get several minutes respite, catching my breath...
Usually when a stellar explosion occurs a very faint star is found on earlier plates in the same position as the explosion, but no progenitor has been found for the new blazing star, which is known as the Nova Lacertae...
...Baby Makes Three (Columbia) drives Robert Young and Barbara Hale to some witless and feverish activity over prospective parenthood. The opening shots, in which a pregnant bride faints at the altar, are something of a novelty. After that, the movie works furiously to overcome its initial breach of Hollywood convention. Some faint sparkle radiates from the racy photography, Robert Young's owl-like pantomime and Robert Hutton's cagey portrayal of a sissified rich boy. But the picture gets its most memorable effects from a series of stylish cocktail-hour gowns...
...dead lay everywhere and the living dared not come near them. They lay in the streets and in the alleys, unburied in potter's field and in houses shunned by their neighbors. Their faces were emaciated and jaundiced, their bodies so malodorous as to make the living faint. Almost half the populace of the city had fled. Of those who remained, the well dared not approach the ill. Men fell suddenly in their tracks and lay dead. Frightened, orphaned children huddled together, starving, and adults hurried by and let them starve...