Word: faintness
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...pull large non-Communist nationalist resistance units away from the Communist-controlled Viet Minh. But instead of winning nationalists away from Ho Chi Minh's camp, they are driving them to it." Excerpt: "Saigon belongs to the French in the day and the Viet Minh at night. The faint, sporadic sputtering of machine-gun fire and thudding artillery disturb the night's peace...
...chance? Because we lost we shouldn't beat our breast. It was a close choice with moral factors on both sides. On a wider view, buying time for the nations of Southeast Asia to stabilize their governments was the major reason for our actions. Thus there is faint consolation in the fact that such countries as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia are not in all that bad shape...
...ACID test of sexual equality is the act of sex itself, then it seems that women--and men--have a long way to go. And the inescapable question--one that the Marias ask with a faint horror--is whether they will ever get there. Sometimes the answer seems to be yes, sometimes no. And as far as what happens with the way things are now and have been for centuries, the Marias seem to offer two alternatives for women: either give yourself to your enemy and go mad or commit suicide like Maria, or else harden yourself like Joana...
...20th Mass son of Oliver Wendell Holmes M.D. Boston," He later explained in his Civil War Diary. "I wrote the above when I was lying in a little house on the held of Antietam which was for a while within the enemy's lines as I thought I might faint and so be unable to tell...
...accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat and flex their knees to relieve the physical and mental strain. Scuffles and raised voices are rare, but they have happened when someone tries to jump the line. "Sometimes a lady will faint," says Bill Peters, 34, the office manager, "but in all my time here [18 months], I've seen only one punch thrown...