Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most men shrink from death. Tazio Nuvolari spent most of his life racing toward it. Born in the little village of Castel d'Ario, in the province of Mantua, he first challenged death at 13, jumping off his parents' roof with an umbrella for a parachute. Tazio got off with a few bruises...
...Author Buck shows, David has come a degree closer to a solution than his father did. But as the years pass, David, too, begins to shrink in stature. His Poona mission station grows so famed that it loses its Christian simplicity, and becomes to David what railroads became to his father. David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village...
Remove the source of the hormones, and 95% of prostate cancers shrink (though 75% later become active again). "Of course we never use the word castration," he says. "It has bad psychological connotations. It's like a doctor who is about to take out your appendix saying, 'I'm going to butcher you up.' " Sometimes Surgeon Huggins does remove the testicles, but often their hormones can be neutralized, without operation, by a female hormone...
...Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
...West Germany their numbers have dropped from 300,000 to 100,000; last month in Austria's elections they got but four out of 165 seats. In 1946 there were 16 Communists among the cabinet ministers of Western Europe; now there are none. Their party membership rolls shrink, their newspapers lose readers by the hundreds, in some cases have already folded...