Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will conquer the land of the white Muscovite maidens...
...When wilt Thou save the people...
...Seven startled huffy Canadian critics, began a row which once reached the floor of the House of Commons. The starkest of the Seven, Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...
...Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest of straw hats among the Summer Theatre...
...Agriculture and Forestry, troubled by two new pests, hoped that the old method would work again. The pests: 1) the anacamptodes moth, a bright little creature whose larvae have riddled the islands' main forage crops; 2) the pineapple mealy bug, a small, white, wingless sapsucker that might wilt every pineapple plant in Hawaii if costly spraying were halted...