Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter-day competitors, who buy their bananas from independent producers. United Fruit also had vast fixed investments in banana lands, workers' housing and rail lines to haul the fruit. Between 1957 and 1960, as the company's sales dropped from $342 million to $304 million, these pressures shrank its per-share earnings from...
...India, Jackie rode a 35-year-old elephant named Bibi, shrank against Prime Minister Nehru in ladylike horror while watching a mongoose battle a cobra (see cut), saw a polo match and cleared jumps on a horse. Before she left, Air-India presented her with twin tiger cubs: the problem of what to do with them was solved when they died...
...explosions sold. In ten years, he had seven shows with Betty Parsons, a dozen more at other top galleries in Europe and the U.S. Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern Art museums bought his work; so did such collectors as Nelson Rockefeller and Peggy Guggenheim. But Congdon shrank from success. He traveled widely through the Mediterranean in search of new images, drank as a stimulus to creation. "Each painting," he wrote, "seemed to redeem me, as the life-ring saves the drowning man. I began to see in each painting a stay against the eventual death sentence...
...lead the national uprising of another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...
...Jung, the systems constructed by his rivals were narrow-gauge, "nothing-but" explanations of human behavior and aspirations, which reduced man's most numinous visions to sordid sex symbols and shrank his soul to the vanishing point. Jung posed bolder concepts-reaching for the ultimate limits of the universe and of man's relationship to his God or gods...