Word: withering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what of New Haven itself, now off the beaten track? Its rutted streets will deteriorate in tranquillity. Its citizens will sleep the suburban sleep. Its institutions will wither...
...joint EGA-Department of Commerce mission. After spending ten weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...
...younger, stormier days, he could wither a strong man with his swearing. "He swore so much," recalls one student, "he had to hyphenate his words to get them all in." Rare was the Schmidt boy who was not roundly berated, fired and rehired every few days...
...problems under the rug. The tightly integrated policy of Good Neighbor days had been disposed of in the same way. The constant plugging of democracy (a campaign backed up by U.S. dollars) had been cut to ribbons. With neglect, Latin America's frail democracies tended to wither, and U.S. prestige sank...
...Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...