Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite reasonably believe could only have been achieved by widespread vote buying. They fear, moreover, that his pre-election spending on roads and school buildings has brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy. The peso, recently freed to find its own level on the world currency market, has shrunk in value from 26? to 14?. As a result, Filipinos face the unhappy prospect of rising inflation and rising unemployment...
...American Flying Fortresses dropped 3,749 tons of explosives. Some 650,000 incendiary bombs created a swirling "firestorm" that sucked everything around it into the inferno's center. Columns of smoke plumed three miles into the glowing sky as the city burned for eight nights. Corpses, some shrunk to 3 ft. by the intense, fiery heat, littered the ground. Anywhere from 35,000 to 135,000 civilians perished...
After Mark Faller was tied at 167 by the Knights' Don Brandenburg, the Harvard lead shrunk to only two points, 15-13. But Rayner and Scanlon came through in tight bouts, 4-3 and 6-4, to insure a Crimson triumph...
...byzantine politics is not important to France's famed, 139-year-old Foreign Legion. Since Algeria, the colonial force has shrunk from 15,000 to 7,500 men, and it is not even as foreign as it used to be: though more than 25% of the legion are still German, an estimated 20% are French, while Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and others form a polyglot minority. After nine long years of dull garrison duty in Corsica, New Caledonia and France, all that matters to the 1,000 legionnaires in Chad is that they are at war once again. TIME Correspondent...
...CRIMSON can ?? to unearth surprising facts. Everyone is ?? expert now, on a steadily widening circle of ?nd our editorial role has unfortunately become one of reaction than of muckraking. At the same, as the number of pressure groups here mushroomed, the pressure exerted by one of ?otorials has shrunk almost to the disappearing. And as the University becomes more and mo?? great closed mind (e.g., Nathan Pusey last sp? "Can anyone believe these demands are ?n seriously?"; an OBU spokesman after Clif? Alexander was named the University's ??ator: "Pusey appointed him-what more do have to say."), even well...