Word: shriveling
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Slowly the invisible cloud took on impalpable bulk and was wafted by a light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however...
Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...
Most of the men who, during the War, were sent to jail for the irregularity of their social ideas, have eventually been let off lightly. The severity of the two Honolulu sentences will come under five reviews; it is predicted that both sentences will shrivel either in the reviews or at the White House...
...more interesting and valuable set of statistics could be obtained from a similar census of the whole college. Confronted with such figures that delightful myth, so popular among comic writers and moralists of the older generation, which patterns college life as a constant rush from gin lo Scotch must shrivel and die. A more scientific discussion of the whole problem of prohibition might be inaugurated by the gathering of detailed and accurate statistics...
...Lampy is plastering Mr. Laski solely because of his reddish penchants, then Lampy is violating the first law for squelching the "Sheviki. For the Reds love red headlines and thrive on them. And conversely they shrivel and die on a diet of agate and nonpareil type. Why put the Harvard Red in larger type than the Harvard Crimson...