Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farino really does throw with a golden arm, the local varsity may well be in for a troubled afternoon. The Army game made it clear that the Crimson's regularly voluminous attack is apt to shrink before a good pitcher...
...Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
...example, put on a pair of royal blue, pegged pants, rhythm your way into the office, extend hand, and say, "Dig ya cool cat." If this seeems degrading, dress quite conservatively and wear white gloves. When the interviewer extends his hand, shrink away, then walk around his arm and whisper furtively into his ear, "Germs you know, they're all over the place...
...real battle will be between the Elis' captain Bill Clinton and the varsity's John Hammond for second place. Hammond is one of the best butterfly men in the country for 100 yards, and he is fast improving in the longer distance, but his 2:23.9 time must shrink considerably to beat Clinton's 2:19.0. Jim Stanley (2:30.6) or Bob Jaffe will be the other Crimson entry...
...very greatest care. This is apparently the best we can do at the present time." Underlying this reluctant admission by so hard-bitten a foe of big budgets was one of the really important facts of the 1950s: the Republicans who went to Washington four years ago, expecting to shrink Big Government drastically, now find themselves caught up in the New Republicanism that tacitly accepts Big Government as a necessity imposed by the political and social realities of life in the mid-century...