Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their children, gradually broke down in the aftermath of World War II. In the rush to the cities for jobs, and the severe housing shortage that followed, many children were simply unable or unwilling to care for their elderly relatives. During the past five years, average family size has shrunk from 4.9 members to 3.7. At the same time, life expectancy has risen sharply since the war (46.9 to 69.2 for men, 49.6 to 74.7 for women). The result is fewer children to care for more and more oldsters...
...last week, Communist guns were not far off. Cabled Cloud: "You can hear artillery in the distance, and from time to time the thunder of B-52 strikes rolls through the city to remind people how close the attackers are. The population -200,000 in normal times-has shrunk to about 100,000, including the troops and 40,000 refugees who were too poor, too tired or too sick to continue the flight south. The imperial palace stands in decaying splendor, surrounded by ancient walls through which gaping holes were blasted in the bloody fighting...
...teach about 40% of their pupils, Greer writes, though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over the years, so that while the dropout of 1900 could find work as a laborer, his counterpart of today often cannot...
...seem somehow pathetic and finally enervating, partly because they are so deeply selfish. If nothing else, Miss Murdoch has pulled one new switch in this book by replacing the complacent American, so often a carefully drawn figure in British comedy, with a cast of smug Englishmen whose horizons have shrunk to little-England dimensions...
...Nixon weren't exactly alike--Humphrey could have been expected to make better supreme court nominations--but their differences were less important than their similarities. George Wallace's support in the polls rose to 20 per cent while blacks stood by understandably indifferent. In the end, Wallace's support shrunk to 13.5 per cent as the American workingman perceived (probably correctly) that Humphrey offered him more bread-and-butter than did Nixon...