Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilization which has brought forth the methods of the common law and developed the bill of rights should not shrink from this new command from a sorely troubled humanity. Creating a system of law for the nations of the world should not be beyond its competence. That should not be more difficult than the development of the rights of man to justice under law. In addition, today, we have a new factor to help in the acceptance of such a plan-a compulsion to try to preserve life itself which is a force that will not be denied. Certainly...
...remedy was obvious. Sam Engelhardt, taking a look at Tuskegee's square-mile area, noted that most of the city's Negroes live in the northwest quadrant near the institute or to the south of it. The remedy, which he proposed to the state legislature this spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters to nine. Both houses unanimously passed Engelhardt's gerrymander bill, sent it on to Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...
...hardly a "political theft" since 913 power projects, including some in Byrd's own state, have received similar tax breaks in the past seven years. Furthermore, while the company will save in taxes in the dam's less profitable early years, its depreciation deductions will later shrink just when its profits rise, and eventually it will pay the tax saving back...
...Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever-increasing postal deficit; updating the rules would be the first step necessary to reduce or eliminate the postage avoidance practices which shrink postal revenue...