Word: wither
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...must consent to a dreadful and irreparable pillage of his deepest self. Something dies in him. Some part of humanness will wither from such close contact with the opposite of humanness--the essence of evilness; and it is rarely, if ever, revitalized...
...Brittany she is forced to watch as her parents are burned at the stake for witchcraft. Later she is brought to the colonies by Sea Captain Jared Bilby, who is enchanted by her. In Massachusetts, Doll takes one look at Bilby's wife Hannah and is able to wither the fetus in her womb-or so Hannah later contends. At 19, Doll takes a lover named Shad, convinced he is a messenger from the King of Hell. Arrested as a witch, she dies in jail convinced not only that she is one, but that Satan will be her salvation...
...more surprised by the underwriting debacle than the companies themselves. Their reserves, which determine how much new business they can write, were swollen as the companies entered the 1970s. But when the stock market began plunging early in 1973, the companies saw their portfolios wither and their reserves drop 22%, to $21 billion by the end of 1974. At about the same time, inflation was racing ahead to record levels, sending claims costs soaring, a condition that was worsened by an unusually high number of tornado and fire losses...
...bumper stickers and other gimmicks they are turning out. The question remains though, about the purpose. It certainly doesn't seem logical to go to such lengths to create an on-going nationwide organization just to debunk official celebrations. Were that the case, the PBC could be expected to wither rather quickly away sometime around July 5, 1976 after a last gasp in Philadelphia. But they don't plan to go away...
...that Daly and Moulton are thrust into the tough situation of dealing with many diverse Cambridge groups. And they know that Bok wants his public relations men to exercise defensive talents, to spot troublemakers, neutralize them under a barrage of committees, interim reports and drafts, and then let them wither away, causing Harvard as little pain as possible...