Word: shrivelled
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...sudden warming could have particularly adverse effects on witch hazels, weeping willows, and skunk cabbages, causing their roots to shrivel and all their leaves to fall off by early August, Reed C. Rollins, director of the Gray Herbarium, said yesterday...
Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh. Neither U.S. nor Soviet researchers can duplicate Fleegle's feat. But both sides have long been working on weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend...
...some areas plows and draft animals are unknown, and the unfertile limestone terrain is cultivated with hoes and machetes. When it rains in Haiti, the corn and beans flourish and the people eat. When drought comes, as it has with increasing frequency over the past two decades, crops shrivel in the arid soil and people starve. The Haitian government believes that nearly 300,000 of its citizens now face possible starvation or malnutrition...
...reserves officer, however, explained, "If we don't exercise the equipment, it deteriorates. The seals shrivel up and when you start it up after seven months, the oil squirts...
...exodus of the individual investor has caused trading volume to shrivel to levels at which few brokers can make any money. Turnover on the New York Stock Exchange must run between 12 million and 17 million shares daily for most brokerages to break even; on two of the five trading days last week it slipped below the bottom end of that range. In the first two months of the year, the brokerage business as a whole suffered a loss of $51 million, v. a $250 million profit in the same period of 1972. Such big houses as Loeb, Rhoades...