Word: wilted
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Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...Buffalo, FBI-man Fred Wilt, improving with age (32), won his third National A.A.U. 10,000-meter senior cross-country championship. Running over a slushy, snow-softened course, Wilt ran the distance...
...nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time it is finished sometime...
...while last week it looked like the old Wanamaker story. Don Gehrmann was out in front at the halfway mark, with Wilt dogging his heels. But from there on, the crowd kept its eyes on Dwyer, the Villanova University senior who had run the two oldtimers into the ground three times before this season. At the three-quarter mark (3:07.5), Dwyer was in the lead, lost it in the final backstretch to Brown University's surprising Walt Molyneux, then came on with a rush for the tape, beating Molyneux by three yards in a fine 4:08.2, fourth...
...title as a miler both indoors and outdoors. His best time in his first year as a miler: a remarkable 4:22.9. Under Villanova Coach Jim Elliot, Dwyer blossomed into a respectable collegiate miler, but was no great shakes in the big time against the likes of Gehrmann and Wilt until his sudden blooming this year...