Word: shrank
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...like an unbending woman," said her father, but Teresa was too proud ever to unbend. Trapped in the circumscribed respectability of suburban Sydney, she also shrank from the thought of becoming a spinster schoolma'am. At her cousin's wedding, when the other girls fought in a "concupiscent fever" to catch the bride's bouquet, Teresa drew back when she saw their "awful eagerness...
...Nature of the Word is the theme of the Christmas oratorio that follows. Before the Nativity, men of the Roman Empire shrank from a future that seemed then as dismal as it does to some today...
...real rush had begun. State chairmen frantically waved their banners for recognition. The Wallace total shrank swiftly...
...faded breeches shrank up his legs. His shirt was ragged. His steely eyes were sunken with fatigue. But his tours among the starved, tattered, forgotten men of Bataan were almost triumphal. They cheered him on the field. Behind his back they reverently called him "Old Skinny...
Lanky, black-haired Howard Robard Hughes, moviemaker, planemaker and speed flyer, shrank the U.S. continent this week. In a brand-new four-motored, 60-passenger Lockheed Constellation he took off from Burbank, Calif, at 3:56 (P.W.T.), landed at Washington, D.C. six hours and 58 minutes later. Average speed: 355 m.p.h. He cracked his own seven-year transcontinental record by 30 minutes, smashed the nine-year-old transport record by 3 hours, 24 minutes...