Word: wilted
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...weekends when skiing conditions are good, the special snow trains of the Boston & Maine railroad pour as many as 3,000 skiers into North Conway. They sleep in the Skimobile house and even in the village jail. And they wilt spend about $2,500,000 this season in the village stores...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...
...unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance from Egypt he expressed through II Kings, 18:21 ("Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand...
...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...