Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive to generate national-advertising; everyone who could was on the streets drumming up business. The editorial content of the paper deteriorated, and a growing group began to press for more national coverage, higher quality work from candidates, and an expansion of the size of the paper, which had shrunk to a norm of four pages as advertising dropped off. Some headway was made; David Lawrence was persuaded to donate his column free of charge, and it soon became a popular front page feature. Frozen out of the Associated Press by Robert Choate, publisher of the Boston Herald, the paper...
Having expelled 26,000 Asian residents during the past four months, Uganda's tempestuous dictator Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada turned his attention last week to another minority group. This time his target was the remnant of Uganda's British community, which has shrunk from 7,000 to about 3,000 in the past six months...
...last quarter-century the number of U.S. banks has shrunk from 14,759 to 13,000. Today the top 100 largest hold 54% of all commercial deposits, up from 48% seven years ago. In California, where banks can open branches anywhere, eight companies own 2,469 of the state's 3,126 banks; the Bank of America alone has 1,001. Forbidden by state law to set up branches outside the city, leading New York banks like Chase Manhattan and First National City are buying up institutions in the state through their bank holding companies. In Missouri, bank holding...
Hobson has shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that...
...O.E.D.'s last entry was written. But then, cathedrals of language, like medieval churches, subordinate the personalities of their builders. Besides, neither is ever really finished. In 1933 the O.E.D. was reissued in twelve volumes plus a supplement. Last year the volumes were reproduced "micrographically" (photographically shrunk) into two volumes and marketed for $75, accompanied by a magnifying glass...