Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, Leonard's is neck & neck with Houston's Foley's, Texas' most spectacular retail outlet. Next year Leonard's hopes to leave Foley's far behind. Says brother Marvin: "A store must always grow, or else it's going to shrink...
...Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S. was hopelessly licked in Belgrade because, instead of lighting into evil with fists flying, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon tended to shrink, like the reticent lady of the statue, from Vishinsky...
...saying essentially what the G.I.s were saying in their own way. Said Ernest Bevin in the House of Commons: "None of us can accept surrender." Replied Harold Macmillan, speaking for His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition: "We must . . . face the risk of war . . . The alternative policy-to shrink from the issue-involves not merely the risk but the almost certainty of war." In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall said: "We intend to stay...
...goods. His bill of particulars: polo shirts and quilts with "nonwashable sewing threads"; printed dress fabrics that "not only cannot withstand perspiration . . . but cannot even withstand water without staining"; women's woolens that fade in sunlight; taffeta and moire finishes "that disappear when wet"; "socalled washable fabrics [that] shrink 6, 7 and 8%"; raincoats that shrink in the rain...
...Jibaro tribe in Ecuador gets a big kick out of decapitating their enemy warriors, Moran explains. As an added touch, they shrink them with hot sand and stones until they stand only a few inches high. "They're really interesting little souvenirs," Moranassures all skeptics...