Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian. He painted portraits of most of the Founding Fathers, including some 60 studies of Washington. At his avocation as jeweler, Peale also fashioned for General Washington the wooden false teeth which caused the well-known shrunken cheeks of the Stuart portraits...
...handful of Belgrade's 12,000 Jews were killed or sent away. Cohen's name was listed among the dead or missing. But Cohen was not dead. Last week, having heard the Germans had left, Cohen came out of his tomb. He was pale, shrunken, with a big, matted beard. He told how every day the sexton had brought him food and the newspapers. One coffin, encrusted with candle drippings, had been his table, another...
When Douglas Rigby was a boy, an adventurous relative brought home some shrunken human heads from Peru. The memory of those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...
Exhausted, shrunken Finland still had to disarm and intern remnants of the German Army, still had crushing domestic problems to settle, still had work and bread to find for her 3.6 million weakened people. But Finland still had her nominal independence...
...full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...