Word: shrivelled
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...those who said it was now likely that Starr would just shrivel up and go away don't understand the man or his four-year mission. While the Jones matter rested on her word against the President's, Starr is armed with tape-recorded assertions by Lewinsky that implicate Clinton in sexual acts he specifically denied under oath and in an attempted cover-up of those acts. "Our facts are very different; our scope is very different," Starr told reporters as he recited the allegations that the Attorney General instructed his office to examine: subornation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses...
...Washington these were dry statistics, but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed grain shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90[degrees], to 100[degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions...
...seems to be the Unabomber was arrested--another example of the way in which a demon, hitherto concealed, may shrivel when brought into sunlight. The suspect's family turned him in because they recognized his writings--a killer betrayed by his own prose style...
...perfect Olaskyan world, the government's role in helping the poor would shrivel, and groups such as CityTeam would "replicate" by the thousands across America. They would do so on a tremendous wave of charitable giving that some conservatives appear to believe will occur almost spontaneously in response to the cutbacks. Leslie Lenkowsky, head of the Hudson Institute think tank, notes a bump in giving during the budget-cutting Reagan years and suggests that "with a return to the economic and tax climate of the 1980s...a repeat performance is not inconceivable...
...decided to cap benefit levels once and for all with our new block grants. And we know that the states will probably begin their anxiously awaited "race to the bottom" (trying to outdo each other in cutting services for the poor), so expect your public assistance to shrivel...