Word: shrunk
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...Yanks muscled in on what had been almost a British preserve? Britain's exports to Argentina last year, delivered at great sacrifice to her war-crippled economy, amounted to less than a third of what Argentina bought from the U.S. Buenos Aires' famed British colony had shrunk to 8,000. Last February's sale of British-owned railways had wiped out the most powerful British business stronghold in the Western Hemisphere...
...number of offerings, the improvement in some departments is great, while others have actually shrunk their lists. The Social Sciences have increased the number of offerings to the point where most students will find something worth taking, either for concentration or for distribution. But most of the other departments stand precisely where they stood last summer, and English has retreated from last year's wide selection of five undergraduate courses to a token three...
...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...
...Elena Ivanovna suddenly became timid. She turned pale and shrunk together as though she had been touched with something coarse, and walked away without saying another word...
Hiccups are no joke when you have been hiccuping for two months-as Anna Mayer had. Shrunk to a starved 82 pounds, she lay convulsed with racking spasms, 60 to the minute. Desperate measures were called for. The surgeon cut into her neck above the collarbone, snipped off an inch and a half of the right phrenic nerve. Like a disconnected electric vibrator, her convulsions slowed, stopped. "When do I eat?" she asked feebly...