Word: faints
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Last Monday evening, Sven Beckert, an Associate Professor of History at the college, began the first class he was teaching at the extension school with an undeniably casual air. He stood in front of a very crowded Sever classroom and scanned his 7:30 p.m. class with a faint smile, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his dark blue oxford shirt was slightly unbuttoned at the bottom, revealing just a sliver of his white undershirt...
...strapped in their seats, a flight attendant with her hands bound. Doctors at the triage stations grieved that there were not more survivors to treat. All they could do was wash the grit out of the rescuers' eyes. Every so often the Klaxon sounded, another fractured building about to faint. Medics had to keep moving the morgue. Even the rescuers had to be rescued from the hidden caves, the shifting rubble, the filthy air. When the rains came Thursday night the peril merely increased, as the ash turned to porridge and the fires hissed and spat...
...King of Pop’s crown. He burst on the scene in the 1970s and thrilled the world in the 1980s. But increasing reports of his bizarre personal life and scandal doomed his career in the 1990s, and his latest comeback effort carries with it the faint scent of desperation. Now is the final chance to prove that the Gloved One is still the loved one in the hearts of the people...
...appears to be in no such jeopardy. Already, there are faint signs that the beleaguered manufacturing sector is ready to recover. If bond yields move much lower and tapped-out consumers can get better terms on their debt, a recovery may not be so far off. If we need a hero, patience may be its name. The good news is that a lot of risk has already been wrung out of the stock market. So this is no time to run scared, even though the cranky teacher is back in the classroom and it seems a long time till next...
...Congress prepared Thursday to hand a stack of blank checks to President Bush, who promised to "spend whatever it takes" to rebuild the shattered parts of his nation. Certainly the debate over whether to dip into the Social Security surplus is a faint memory. Infusions of government funds into industries like defense and security are likely in the near future...