Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured as he held his head up and said to his British colleagues: "He may at any time attempt the invasion of this island. That is an ordeal from which we shall not shrink." He paused again. Then, for ears not in London but in Ankara, which last week suddenly became capital of the realm of anxiety, he said: "At the present moment he is driving fast through the Balkans and at any moment he may turn upon Turkey." Looking up into the distinguished...
...green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle back to the quiet peace of a ship...
...week he got off his bicycle and flew to Manhattan to speak at the National Interfraternity Conference, urge a higher standard of political debate, ask greater aid to Great Britain ("We must continue to help the fighting men of Britain to preserve that rim of freedom which is gradually shrinking and which, if we permit it to continue to shrink, will shrink to the edge of our own shores"). But at week's end he was still mum on the subject of the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee...
...recognize that our way of life cannot survive in a Nazified world, it is plain horse sense to crush the avowed enemy while we have freedom of action and an active ally. Let us not shrink from dirty work when we know it has to be done. If we do shrink now, the price we would have to pay later would be infinitely more fearful than any present cost, even if some of our democratic privileges were temporarily surrendered...
Even the signers admit "we cannot safely be indifferent to the outcome of the present wars," showing that they apparently recognize the impli- cations of the situation but shrink from facing them squarely...