Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Malabar Hill, it has become easier to catch a glimpse of what was once forbidden to all but the tower attendants-a view of the interior of the towers, where the dead are left as carrion. Visiting one of the new buildings, a horrified Parsi was able to see shrunken corpses stacked in grotesque piles inside one tower. After he complained, a wall was quickly built to screen the tower. But Parsis now realize the shortcomings of the ancient method. The vultures still come, along with other birds, but for some unexplained reason scarcely touch the corpses these days. Many...
Voyages around this shrunken planet are not all they are cut out to be. "The friendly skies" are anything but nowadays, as people claw for dwindling seats on jets, ticket prices soar, and the plastic fantastic atmosphere on board commercial airliners distinctly resembles that of a swingles...
...held today, he continued, so many Republicans would lose that the President could no longer expect his vetoes to be sustained in Congress. Louis Harris has reported that the Democrats would win the elections by as much as 53% to 31%. Watergate, said Harris, is further eroding the already shrunken Republican Party, which now makes up only 25% of the electorate, lower than the 28% listed as Independents and the 47% as Democrats...
...second Mitchell, harshly questioned about his judgment and his truthfulness, seemed shrunken and subdued. His words slurred, his eyes watered, his face was flushed. This Mitchell, out of power and in eventual danger of being jailed, was bitter, muttering into the microphones: "It's a great trial being conducted up here...
...Lost Ones were the remnant of a whole novel freeze-dried in the fickle climate of the cylinder, a whole Inferno shrunken into the raisin of a single situation. The taste is concentrated and pungent. Partly it is the terse style, partly it is the large type employed (with small case letters as big as the capitals on this page) but every word seems as full and in-itself as those of a first reading book seem to a child. Each sentence stands larger than life, and is stated so definitely and with so much technical precision that it seems...