Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...
...inflationary aftermath of World War I, the value of the mark shrank in 1923 to an unprecedented 4.2 trillion to $1, pauperizing the middle class and leaving Germany with a horror of inflation that survives in today's constitutional prohibition against government budget deficits...
While Williams tried fecklessly to provoke mass arrests, bending the campaign toward civil disobedience, Resurrection City's population shrank to a minimum estimate of only 500. Violence was rising, vituperative militance was alienating liberals, who are Abernathy's only real source of mainstream support, and the pretender to the role of Martin Luther King was letting the Poor People's Campaign wallow into disorder, disintegration and self-defeat...
Lately the inability to compete has been reflected ominously in the nation's traditional trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-which has been the cornerstone of U.S. global economic power since World War II. From a peak of $7 billion in 1964, that surplus shrank 41% to $4.1 billion last year. So far this year, the record has been even worse. The first-quarter surplus fell to an annual rate of only $731 million, the lowest in 31 years; during March, the U.S. trade balance actually ran $158 million...
Winnipeg's early advantage shrank slowly, and by the three quarter mark, Canada found itself at a length disadvantage. Now it was the Harvards who had to hold on, and they did, easily, to win in the time of seven minutes flat...