Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the New Journalism had been invented as a phrase. Wilson was one of its most accomplished practitioners. In his reportage and in his travel books, Wilson proved himself as vivid and dramatic a writer as any novelist while also demonstrating that literature need not shrink from confronting social crises. Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame...
...Carolinas, Florida, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Miami, New York City and Chicago cause "special concern." When the temperatures rise next month, consumers who keep buying more and more electrical appliances can expect from time to time to find their air conditioners slow, their lights dim, their TV pictures shrink...
Last October while I was in London I talked to my aunt on the telephone. A week or so earlier my grandmother had rung for Mrs. Aslett to ask when exactly she was planning to quit working full-time. Mrs. Aslett seemed to shrink even smaller, and replied, "Well, Lady Dyson...
Such breakaway groups sometimes shrink or dissolve without a sustaining structure. The Faith Community in St. Louis, which has ties to the S.F.C.C., began with 26 members five years ago, now has seven-yet those are thriving. The sisters, says Spokeswoman Nancy Brossette, found that what they had was not so much a common goal as a common enemy-lack of money, planning and knowledge about how to make it on the outside. Many new nuns share this "reentry" problem. As one former Dominican puts...
...York State, after taxpayers had defeated a transportation bond issue in November, awoke to the fattest projected nonfederal deficit in U.S. history: $750 million for the fiscal year ending in June. To shrink it, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered payment of more than $350 million in state aid to local school districts delayed from March until July, so that it would count against the fiscal 1973 budget rather than the present one. The state this fiscal year has also closed two tuberculosis hospitals, a school for retarded children and a prison, and instituted a statewide freeze on hiring...