Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kogi men, says Reichel-Dolmatoff, loathe sex and shrink from it, an attitude they learn as boys from priests who spend nine years in darkness studying the tribal rituals. The priests, called mamas, teach that women are evil-but a necessary evil, because they provide men with food. Thus embittered against women, boys are initiated into a reluctant sexual role by a 60 year-old hag, and then sent out to seek wives...
...long before the Wisconsin presidential primary (in which he was roundly defeated), he announced that he was available for the Republican nomination. Only last March, while saying that he was not a candidate in this campaign, he referred to another statement in which he said he would not "shrink . . . from accepting any public duty...
Last week, with Vermont's snows just beginning to shrink, Santo was busy in his backyard studio finishing a picture of Bennington's Baptist Church. In another month, he will exchange his canvases and palette for buckets and ladder. His big ambition is to sell enough pictures to be able to give up house painting for good...
...desire on the one hand to provide through our schools unity in our national life. On the other we seek the diversity that comes from freedom of action and expression by small groups of citizens. We look with disfavor on any monolithic type of educational structure; we shrink from any idea of regimentation, of uniformity as to the details of the many phases of secondary education. Unity we can achieve if our public schools remain the primary vehicle for the education of our youth, and if as far as possible, all the youth of a community attend the same school...
...MacArthur last week suddenly appeared at the front of the stage. He was discussed more seriously as a presidential possibility than at any time since last summer. MacArthur responded by saying that he was not a candidate, but he also pointed to an earlier statement that he would not "shrink . . . from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...