Word: wilting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are new kinds of soybeans with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved...
Whether the Middies will wilt under pressure or whether they will be able to stave it off, as they did against Cornell, only time will tell, and that time is rapidly approaching...
Side by side the two men listened to George Washington's Prayer for the U.S. (". . . that thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government. . . ."), a prayer "In Time of War" from the English prayerbook (". . . grant us victory, if it be thy will. . . ."), a prayer from the American Book of Common Prayer ("Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage. . . ."-TIME, Dec. 15). The hymns were militant : God of Our Fathers, Once To Every Man and Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America...
Before Congressional committees he is decisive, clear, unbending, aloof. Impersonally courteous, he never descends to personalities, never lets his collar wilt when the questioning is hot, seldom raises his voice, but never wavers. The result is that Congress is often antagonistic. A few Congressmen have a grudging admiration for him. Many, particularly on the Republican side, dismiss him in angry words, usually adding that he is a doddering...
Next day, for the 36-hole final, the thermometer hovered around 95°. But the non-Texans did not wilt. When the final score was posted, the $1,000 first prize went to 39-year-old Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N.Y., who holds the world's record for 72 holes of tournament golf: 264, chalked up at New York's Metropolitan Open last year. Last week his 72-hole total was 284, but-considering the weather, the chiggers, a recently wrenched back that made him wear a polo belt, and suicidal holes like Death Valley (Colonial...