Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention span shrank to grasshopper proportions. He heard voices that told him his girl friend was dead, that his father had committed suicide...
...conditions in Hungary, a papal nuncio reminded him of a Vatican promise to the Communists that the cardinal would accept the Pope's guidance and not disrupt church relations with the Hungarian regime-a condition to which Mindszenty said he never agreed. Mindszenty told the Vatican that "I shrank from the thought of having to keep silent in the free world." As a result-on the 25th anniversary of the day Mindszenty's trial ended-Pope Paul stripped him of his episcopal office. To Mindszenty, it meant "complete and total exile...
What little territory remained under South Viet Nam's control shrank steadily through the week as Communist forces drew the ring around Saigon even tighter. Along the coast, North Vietnamese forces overwhelmed the towns of Phan Rang and Phan Thiet, bringing to 19 the number of provincial capitals they have captured. In the Mekong Delta they stepped up their sporadic attacks in an effort to cut Saigon off from its primary source of rice and vegetables. At Xuan Loc, a provincial capital only 40 miles east of Saigon, a valiant defense by outnumbered and outgunned government forces finally appeared...
...often unsuccessful. The earlier implants, which consisted of chemically inert plastics, were of a firmer consistency than normal breast tissue and were aesthetic failures; the reconstructed breast was often no more than a hard mound that was usually noticeably smaller than the remaining breast. The plastic, in fact, often shrank and became lumpy after implantation...
Though a seven-man majority of the learned Justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. shrank with becoming modesty from this speculation, the jury of laymen that convicted Dr. Kenneth Edelin in a Boston criminal court (TIME, Feb. 24) showed no such restraint. Its verdict-guilty of manslaughter-was reached after the jury decided that a fetus aborted by the obstetrician more than a year earlier had been, in fact, a living baby. Last week Judge James P. McGuire, who in his charge to the jury had declared that "a fetus is not a person and therefore...