Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When teeth are pulled, the vacant gums shrink slowly; months elapse before the absorption of bone is complete and the tissues are stabilized. Therefore dentists used to wait six months to a year before fitting false teeth. During the interval, the cheeks and lips caved in, the chewing muscles were weakened. The victim could hardly eat or talk, was constantly uncomfortable and embarrassed...
...audience knew, that his job would be the most difficult in Japan. He knew that in acquitting it he should never try to dominate these demagogues; he should use them. Quickly he came to the point: ". . . Though I am an older man than most here, I will not shrink from exchanging verbal blows with...
...began rapidly to decline, fell under Spanish rule for 60 years until a revolution in 1640 restored her independence. Napoleon drove her ruler to Brazil in 1807 and in 1822 that country declared its independence. Her possessions plucked away by oncoming nations, she saw her great empire shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king, an indoor sport who gave up all for Actress Gaby Deslys, was deposed in 1910 and after a short revolution a republic was proclaimed. Between 1910 and 1926, 40 Governments and 18 revolutions followed in rapid succession. Then the Army took control, placed General...
...advertising space has had to be reduced, and premium rates are often charged for advertisements more than two columns wide. Rates were raised some time ago because of higher printing costs. Last week 13 dailies agreed to raise the rates another 25% on May 1. If advertising does not shrink further, it too may be rationed. Meanwhile, many advertisers are turning to billboards...
...been pushed up from the masses. The generation of Britain's show-running aristocracy which should now be in the saddle is pushing up poppies in Flanders fields. Not even sandy Winston Churchill's latest whistling in the dark ("we are certainly by no means inclined to shrink") could alter the big fact that Britain's owning classes were resigned to the prospect of financial ruin as a result of their second world war in 25 years, that its press was on the whole supinely uncritical (Premier Molotov's speech was even interpreted as "Russia Joins...