Word: shriveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy, ignored labor's support of Jenkins, gave Lee a plurality of 6,000 votes. Lee's comeback impressed even anti-Lee Republicans enough to welcome...
...from Manhattan, to visit his dying father, Br. Peale read a highly critical article in Redbook quoting Theologians Liston Pope and Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation as pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church. After Peale's minister father died at 85, his stepmother Mary said, "Your father left a message for you ... He said, 'Tell Norman his message is right...
...Tower. At 83, and just two months away from a gall-bladder operation, Herbert Hoover moved about a little stiffly but the trip to Brussels was, in fact, just another event in a still-crowded life. "You should not retire from work," he said in 1956, "or you will shrivel up into a nuisance . . . talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income tax." In his apartment-office in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Tower, Herbert Hoover keeps busy up to 16 hours a day, keeps two of his three fulltime secretaries on hand seven days a week...
...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...
...Choke." "The noise in here drives you bugs after a while," said his co-worker Salvatore Recupero, "but he never come off his machine to talk to anybody. He was a bandit for work." But along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting anything...