Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of sensuous, pagan hymns, Eton-educated Poet Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats on the cloakroom floor and hopping on them) "shook [a] small, trembling fist" at the man he named "the Socialist of Galilee": Wilt thou yet take all, Galilean? but these thou shalt not take...
...least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this and more, too, had stubbornly refused to wilt...
...Abram said unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd-men; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left...
...unless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wakes up to the fact that even the sweetest flower of spring--or the biggest box office in cinema citizenry--may sicken and wilt like the leaves of yesteryear, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon will soon be out looking for employment of a different sort...
After the War. Much of Brazil's new industry will probably wilt when foreign manufactures re-enter the market. But Brazil is accumulating capital, machinery, know-how. Brazil's level of industrialization will probably remain well above what it was when the war began. Part of the money to equip her factories with the best foreign machinery will come from a steep excess-profits tax which may be avoided by putting twice the amount into government-issued "equipment certificates...