Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harder to administer to. The blare of bugles blowing reveille scared the Huklings so that they clutched at nurses in fear. The first sight of soldiers in uniform made them duck; they were so disciplined to silence that the slightest shush from a nurse stopped their crying. The girls shrank from dolls, the boys were frightened by toy cars...
...continue to live out my life as such a man. Habit and self-interest both presumed it. I had been for 13 years a Communist; and in Communism could be read, more clearly with each passing year, the future of mankind, as. with each passing year, the free world shrank in power and faith . . . Yet, in 1938, I gave a different ending to that life...
...month-old twin boys, one of whom was arrested at the three-month level of development, while his brother made the vague, meaningless gestures of an idiot. Even more striking was a 15-month-old girl who also had failed to progress beyond the normal three-month level; she shrank back in wild-eyed withdrawal when the doctor approached...
...five years, Sharpe manipulated Mrs. Eaves's investments through a series of 648 transactions, made a third of his income from commission on the transactions. In the process, Mrs. Eaves's holdings shrank to $31,700. Last week the SEC ruled that the National Association of Securities Dealers was justified in expelling R. H. Johnson & Co. from membership, revoking Salesman Sharpe's broker registration and suspending the registration of two of the firm's Boston partners for one year. It was the third time in six years that the firm had been disciplined for unethical practices...
...centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...