Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said: "Revolutionaries should start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising, etc. ... Do not shrink from these experimental attacks; they may, of course, degenerate into excesses, but that is a worry of the future...
...pressure for merger is not on now--and won't be until enrollment and talent and money start to shrink to their normal levels. The real struggle for existence--or perhaps a quiet amalgamation--will come then...
Frozen Balances. Within six weeks, Britain must meet another financial problem, which will shrink the dollar supply still more. Under the terms of the Anglo-American loan, Britain must make all sterling balances, earned by other nations after July 15, convertible into dollars. More serious by far is the problem of the $13.5 billion in accumulated sterling balances piled up by Britain's creditors. At present, these balances can be spent only in the sterling area. However, the Anglo-American loan agreement provides that any amounts from the accumulated balances which are made available for spending after July...
When the M.P.s were trooping out of the chamber, Attlee deliberately joined Churchill. As the argument grew hot between them, a crowd of M.P.s gathered around. As Churchill, still wrapped in his bulky overcoat, waved his arms up & down, Attlee seemed to shrink in size. They talked earnestly for a few moments, then Churchill's chubby face, still flushed, broke into a smile. The thunderstorm was over and they parted amicably. An M.P. privately explained: "Churchill also had difficulty with Wavell. He didn't give any reason when he fired Wavell from his Middle East command. There...
Even a Shakespeare-or a Norman Corwin-might shrink from the task of putting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Bernard Baruch and Harry Hopkins into a room together and making them converse on Plato, Thomas Jefferson, tariffs and Joseph Stalin. But Columnist ("We, the People") Jay Franklin has done precisely that...