Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...
...himself. Back in Cambridge there hadn't been a flake of snow all fall, and Christmas at home had been more like spring. But New Year's at Lake Placid was different, like in the old days further south when the polar ice cap had not started to shrink...
...avid taste for "how-to" books, e.g., How to Shrink a Human Head, is extremely inventive in lab ("Smashing!-Now pass the bat's blood"), once thought up a ripping plan for blowing up Herbert Morrison and the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes...
Wives who shrink from a round-the-clock application of Dorothy Carnegie's rules are given an example of the sort of man a non-Carnegie attitude produces: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English poet." Coleridge had plenty of enthusiasm but no goal and presumably no checks on his calorie intake, no praise for his taste in ties. Consequently, he left much of his poetry "unfinished . . . dissipated his talents . . . lived in a world of unrealized dreams . . . was always on the verge of doing something and . . . never did it." Oddly enough, it is the image of Coleridge -dissipated, useless and lovable...
...first drink-it's the first drink that's the dangerous one-you're one drink away from a drunk. A little beer here and there and this horrible social drinking will lead to death, disgrace, and disease. The liver will turn purple, the brain shrink...