I've had some that didn't last three weeks, and I've had some that last eight, nine years," said Mr. Titus, who wore the bottom half of a worn black fire suit, a faded, ill-fitting brown T-shirt and a crisp new Jimmie Johnson cap covering his uncombed gray hair.
Now that he is effectively ruling the country as King Fahd fades in ill health, Crown Prince Abdullah presides over a kingdom where no citizen can know the income derived from pumping eight million barrels a day of oil and no one knows how many billions the royal family skims for personal use -- though judging by the scores of opulent palaces throughout the country, it is not chump change.
The home side faded notably thereafter, ill discipline and a resurgent visiting pack seeing another pair of penalties conceded.
In Cancún the ill will faded and large chunks of that accord were at last translated into the official UN process.
The sense that America's schools are critically ill has faded, but that sense has been replaced not by satisfaction, but by a widespread impression of pervasive and unremediable mediocrity.
And if such a larger pattern of concern for one's body is really necessary for the affective component of pain, then this should fade in terminally ill people as they give up on life and come to want only a speedy natural death, rather than the continued relative functional integrity of their diseased bodies.
In addition, many scholars and American Muslims said, the influence of Wahhabism has faded because its inflexibility is ill suited to life in the United States and to the multiethnic mix of American Muslims.
Early British optimism soon faded as the press reported that British troops were ill-equipped and mismanaged by aged generals using out-of-date tactics and strategy.
WATERBURY, Vt .— Among the casualties of the flooding that ravaged Vermont during Tropical Storm Irene was a faded brick hospital that housed the state's most seriously ill psychiatric patients.
To such an extent, ironically, that when the bloom faded and things were quite clearly not getting better, comedy was ill-placed to react.
