Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below in the kiva the carriers drop their snakes into the arms of the grey priests and go back for more. Women run out into the square, sprinkle corn meal on the ground in a circle with radial lines extending in the six directions of Indian astronomy. They shrink back. The carriers fling their snakes into the circle. The snakes writhe one upon another, sometimes try to slip away. Suddenly several Hopi rush into the circle, fill their arms with snakes and run off, out of the village, over the plateau to fling the snakes far from them. Slowly they...
...against and passed around, like a diver groping his way), no one could help me with any rule, for the reading of that book is a creative act in which no one can stand in our stead, or even collaborate with us. And therefore how many there are who shrink from writing it; how many tasks are undertaken in order to avoid that one! Each happening, the Dreyfus case, the War, supplied fresh excuses to the writers for not deciphering that book?they wished to assure the triumph of right, rebuild the moral unity of the nation, and they...
These changes reduced the total of the Senate's savings to $156,000,000 or less. Critics of the bill pointed out that it contained a duplicate provision on annual leaves without pay which would shrink its total by another...
...shrink back again to life...
...contends that if war is to be prevented and the future good of the World preserved we must join with the other nations in some definite action against this country gone berserk. The method which he advises is an economic boycott of Japan. If this fails, he does not shrink from advocating actual force...