Word: wither
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When remedies for such injustices are provided by the states, Griswold said, "intervention by the federal courts will wither away...
...found himself swooping in behind four fighter-bombers to pick up seven wounded Americans. Suddenly one of the escorting Skyraiders burst into flames from a ground hit, and its partners peeled away to protect it. All alone, Bloomquist's chopper-call sign "Dust-off 174"-touched down amid wither ing crossfire from Viet Cong .50-cal. machine guns. Bloomquist ordered his crew to load the wounded, calmly polished his sunglasses, then rotated out in a hail of tracers...
...TONSILS. For adults and for all victims of leukemia or hemophilia, tonsillectomy is a major operation with grave risks. Dr. Cahan has performed several tonsillectomies by freezing; within three weeks after the ten-minute treatment, the tonsils simply wither away...
...strength of Islam in many cases depends upon imponderable factors of history that are subject to profound change. For black Africa, one of Islam's chief lures is its tolerance of polygamy-a practice sure to wither away with the tribal structure that made it necessary, as it has in much of the Middle East. In the Arab world, the faith that created empires is subsidized by Presidents and dictators partly because it can provide spiritual justification for political ambitions. Egypt, for example, funnels vast sums of money into the propaganda outlets of the Supreme Islamic Council, which praises...
...College and a tutor in Leveret House. He is a complex person, at once an Establishment Negro and a vigorously anti-Establishment rebel. The jolly conductor of the Leverett House Glee Club is simply not the same man who writes bitterly about the death of Malcolm X; nor are wither of these the scholar who wishes to "treat Negro history as a problem of social science...