Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he was elected, but not certified, last July. Immediately after last summer's national elections, Batista's varied opposition began to file complaints of some 2,000 local voting frauds which threatened to delay the President-elect's inauguration many months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted...
...effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers, can you really believe it unsound to try to bolster desperate England in the hope--even were it ten times as faint--of keeping war away from an appallingly unprepared America...
...American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social sciences--be established and all undergraduates...
...crowds had come to Boston at dawn, lugging soapboxes, peach baskets, camp chairs, pillows, even armchairs. Schools, stores, factories were closed; suburbs were deserted; boards went up on downtown windows. In the waiting crowd stood, sat or perched the thousand who would faint, the 400 who would be injured (broken toes, arms, ribs), the one man who would die of heart strain before the long, long day was over...
...faint roar of many voices broke in on his thoughts. His watch!--Christo et Ecclesiae -- 2:10 "Where did I put those pennants...