Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural vegetation in the combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
...decorate towns with beautiful works; the action of the ignorant to destroy these ornaments. . . . Beyond all cities . . . Rome is . . . a monument of the virtues of the world to all posterity, and a trespass against her greatness would justly be regarded as an outrage against all time. . . . Destroying Rome thou wilt lose not the city of another, but thine own. Preserving her . . . thou wilt enrich thyself with the most splendid possession of the earth...
...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...
...garrison at Pantelleria, told to "hold the line" by Mussolini, did so with commendable valor, an indication that the universally maligned and notoriously misled Italian troops will not necessarily wilt away before the first invasion troops...
...noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time for a cup of tea and a cat nap, she is in her dressing room two hours before curtain time. By the time...