Word: shriveling
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...ghost picture as creepy as a rattlesnake ranch. The ectospasms begin shyly while London Composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister (Ruth Hussey) are sitting in a vacant house on the Devonshire coast, wondering whether to buy it. While they talk, some roses they have brought along shrivel up quick-&-quietly as closing fans...
...much harder has our present job been made by past appeasement? . . . The great majority, which elects Presidents, watches and wonders, and the thing in its heart which makes enthusiasm and election victories begins to shrivel a little. There comes a time...
Caused by comma-shaped bacteria known as Vibrio or Spirillum cholerae, which dwell in sewage-contaminated water, cholera drains body tissues of their fluids, causes intense vomiting, diarrhea and violent muscular spasms. More than a third of its victims shrivel up, turn dark grey or violet, die, sometimes within a few hours...
...sugar they consume, it looked as though the islands in a normal pancreas secreted some substance which acted like a spark plug. What was the spark plug? That same night, Banting read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove residue and extract." Then...
...column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...