Word: wither
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...airman thinks that the Air Force will let a big segment of the vital U.S. aircraft-engine industry wither away. But the immediate future looks thin. Said one Pentagon policymaker last week: "I would like to see a more even distribution. But for all these jet-engine people, it is just too bad that Pratt & Whitney is so uniformly good...
...House must play an increased role as the focus of student activity. If Houses are to realize their full potential, the presence of college-wide social and organizational ganglions must be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, University associations wil grow into centers of prestige and activity, while Houses wither to sleeping quarters for the active and apartments for the non-doers...
Most of the boycotts are unorganized, word-of-mouth affairs. Some crop up overnight and wither as swiftly. Others last for weeks or months in the ebb and flow of their effectiveness...
...sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will wither. I am quite alone...
...Wiesbaden, Major Cox decided on the basis of preliminary evidence that Rodney and Charles were, indeed, identical twins. (He will not be positive until the grafts have been given enough time to take. Normally, because the skins of different individuals have biological differences, grafts from one person to another wither and disappear within 30 to 60 days, although they have temporary value as a protective covering.) The twins were wheeled into separate operating rooms. Surgeons took from Charles' thighs and lower legs twelve strips two in. wide, 12 to 14 in. long and thirteen-thousandths of an inch thick...