Word: shriveled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debts of the less developed nations to $300 billion. Many nations are so weighed down with debt that bankers are growing wary of lending them more. Yet if they cannot borrow, poor countries will have trouble importing more oil. Without energy, their economies will slump, exports will shrivel, and they may default on existing loans. At the extreme, that would threaten some of the lending banks with failure, and the U.S. Federal Reserve would have to push the money printing presses into overdrive to bail them out by advancing huge loans to the banks. Such a step would amount...
Sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston (where shivering indoor frigidity became a mark of status) could never have mushroomed so prosperously without air conditioning; some communities-Las Vegas in the Nevada desert and Lake Havasu City on the Arizona-California border-would shrivel and die overnight if it were turned...
DRACULA. Graceful, hypnotic, cultured, with the accumulated wisdom of 500 years. He can shrivel a potential rival with a burning glance, and back it up with action. No matter that he never sees the sunlight--the day is evil and harsh; it is for playing ball and going to school and applying fresh Clearasil after every class. Daylight means exposure. Whereas Dracula haunts the shadows, dissolves into a puff of smoke, a wolf or a bat. And he can hide his hard-on in his cape...
...shortages across the U.S. have hardly initiated the new Middle Ages. But a skittish uncertainty about fuel, along with other factors like the stand-down of the DC-10 fleet and the way that dollars shrivel like cheap bacon when they go abroad, has begun to work changes in the way that Americans are approaching their annual ceremonies of leisure. Many vacations this year are being curtailed, especially the traditional summer trips that Americans en masse have taken since the early '50s-the long cross-country excursion by car. Now, having glimpsed the mortality of the machine, many Americans...
...means of organizing into special-interest lobbies to protect their paychecks. Corporate employees such as computer programmers and engineers have experienced a moderate loss in buying power, and librarians have seen the purchasing strength of their paychecks shrink by 11% since 1967, while college professors have had theirs shrivel...