Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Today NATO is divided against itself over Algeria; the United Nations is split; the United States has chosen to support through default a position which has a faint scent of loyalty to our allies and a stench of futility. Even if the regard of anticolonial nations is of no consequence, even if the support of the United Nations were not a compelling demand, even if support of United Nations intervention were really opposed by all our allies, the UN still offers hope in Algeria. France offers none...
...Khrushchev only raised hackles by his obstinate attempt to act like a spokesman for a group that had already rejected his right to do so. With the exception of Ghana's Nkrumah (who suggested that perhaps the U.N. should have three deputy Secretary-Generals), no one showed even faint enthusiasm for the Soviet plan to reorganize Hammarskjold out of a job. Khrushchev's airy claim that he and Tito had "fully" patched up their longstanding quarrel was belied by his own implicit admission that, in fact, they had not come to terms on i) their deep ideological differences...
...chief of the bureau's photographic research section, the camera's purpose is to test the resolving power (fine-grainedness) of photographic films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...
...likelier looking specimen than towering (6 ft. 2¼ in.), handsome Cabot Lodge. He is 58, has grey hair and eight grandchildren, but he still has a youthfully athletic air about him. His voice is throatily masculine, with a kind of standard, radio-announcer accent that shows only faint traces of Boston and Harvard...
...movie critic for TIME and the Nation, who died suddenly in 1955, when only 45, before the publication of his finely wrought Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, A Death in the Family. In 1936, says Evans, black-haired, husky Jim Agee seemed younger than his 27 years and still retained "a faint rubbing of Harvard and Exeter." Though likable and above average as an individual, he "didn't look much like a poet, an intellectual, an artist, or a Christian, each of which he was." Agee's own view was darker. He saw himself and Evans as "two angry, futile...