Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century before U.S. farmers took even a faint interest in them, the first soybeans were brought to this country by an amateur horticulturist named Dr. James Mease. "The soybean is adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
...only a maximum but a reverie. It was possible, to be sure, that automakers had much bigger inventories of scarce materials than they admitted. (They had enough to turn out 45,600 units last fortnight, more than twice the output in the corresponding 1940 week.) There was also a faint hope that OPM's new plans for getting real figures on short metals inventories might reveal large excess supplies (in the hands of farsighted manufacturers)* that could be reallocated...
Commissioner Yoshizawa met this faceslap with the faint remark that it was "disappointing." By week's end the toughest statement he had permitted himself was: "We can agree on some points, but it is my impression that agreement will be very difficult on others." And he had plaintively telephoned Tokyo that The Netherlands East Indies might have shown "greater sincerity." It seemed that the stroke of noon had been Minister van Mook...
...Claire Ledoux, an international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...