Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor said it would "take 27,000 men or women to turn off by hand the street lights. . . . There are 27,000 separate switches." The Board of Estimate appropriated $25,000 for sirens. One horn was tried. Citizens a few blocks away, anxiously listening, heard nothing but a faint moo. Most people heard nothing...
...neighborhood health center crowded 44 buzzing citizens, ranging from a boy in green corduroy slacks to a determined-looking grandmother. They all came to learn First Aid from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...
...Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth of a new century would be a cleansing and a rebirth...
...radio heckler. His program was interrupted by a voice exclaiming: "You are an Italian ass." Signor Appelius riposted: "That's better than being a British citizen." This led to an impromptu exchange of high-school wit. Later in the week, when the heckler's voice was faint, Signor Appelius tried for the large effect by crying: "Speak louder, ghost! No ghost will save England...
Died. Dr. John Stanley Plaskett, 75, Canadian astronomer, a leading authority on the motions of faint stars, the Milky Way's rotation, the nature of matter in interstellar space; in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Two of the largest stars, "Plaskett's Twins," were named after...