Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanton, P.B.H. Social Service Committee member, who was in charge of the endeavor, expressed his gratitude to the undergraduate body for its "tremendous response." Asserting that the Committee had set its goal of 1000 books, which was surpassed, with only faint hope of its attainment. Stanton congratulated the College for its "very healthy and heartening spirit...
...made a direct appeal over the heads of the representatives of special groups--the farmers, laborers and business men--to cooperate in the supreme economic effort. And he pledged that the Allied war effort will not be impeded by the "faint of heart," by "bogus patriots," and "by a handful of noisy traiters...
Actually panic, which is sudden, unreasonable fear, may make people stampede, faint, sweat, shake, soil their breeches, have palpitation of the heart-but it will not kill a healthy person...
...Faint lines of strain appear nowadays in Nelson's normally chubby face. He lives alone in a small, furnished apartment. The big boss of U.S. industry goes to bed late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort...
...passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...