Word: faint
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...state government, Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, a tax-cutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
...inefficiency of state government. Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question Two on next Tuesday's ballot, a taxcutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
...equipment, rescuers were often at cross-purposes. Swiss and French avalanche dogs, trained to sniff out buried bodies, were thrown off the scent by powerful disinfectants that were sprayed on buildings to keep decaying bodies from spreading disease. French microphonic devices, flown in to monitor buildings for faint sounds of breathing, were useless in the din of bulldozers...
...Gable. When he finally got the right book, he learned that the stars were enormously distant suns. "This just blew my mind. Until then, my universe had been my neighborhood. Now I tried to imagine how far away I'd have to move the sun to make it as faint as a star. I got my first sense of the immensity of the universe. I was hooked...
...Christmas Eve 1962. Faint echoes of Silent Night twinkle through the frosty air. As Father Patrick J. Sullivan of the Roman Catholic film office recalls the scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird...