Word: shrank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only be because so many others (most notably Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata) have committed suicide. The irony, however, is that for the leading literary figure in Japan, Abe's writing has a remarkably Western flavor. Except for place names and a few distinctly oriental metaphors ("his thoughts shrank like a piece of fat meat plunged into boiling water"), Secret Rendezvous. Abe's sixth and most recent book could pass, like his others, for a Western novel...
...office he always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he remains the subject of intense interest: heads of state seek his counsel, his support on issues is solicited, he is deferred to?even feared?as if he still strode the corridors of the White House and State Department. During his eight years as Richard Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...
School opening was delayed until Sept. 12, 1974 in part because guards, school aids, and teachers were training to prepare themselves to deal with expected violence, and in part because no one was sure how many children would actually show up. Projected enrollment steadily shrank as parents insisted that children would either stay home or go to private schools rather than attend school with blacks. Catholic school enrollments swelled particularly quickly in Hyde Park and Mattapan, although parochial schools which accepted students fleeing integration did so against the orders of the Archdiocese of Boston...
...with disfigured limbs and scarred bodies. "You know me, don't you?" cried one pathetically misshapen young man, about 20, to a SAVAK sergeant on trial. "Look, look at these joints that no longer function. Look at these wounds that even now won't heal!" The defendant shrank before the recollection of a night he perhaps remembered too well...
...Carter's initial idea was to give a television address along the lines of the "moral equivalent of war" speech he made two years ago this month. But all that most Americans now remember of that occasion is that he called the nation to the energy barricades, then shrank from leading the fight. This time aides were urging him to choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter's audience will include not just the American people but the OPEC cartel. Until he presents an energy plan that sharply and permanently reduces the nation...