Word: wither
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...heart's ambitions wither to odds and ends...
Said Gore: "If for the second year in a row the supporters of international trade kept silent, the sentiment for world trade might start to wither on the vine. And the rest of the world might get the wrong idea of what we really stand for." Gore's ideas about world trade go back to his early days in Carthage, Tenn., when, as a young schoolteacher, he made friends with a fellow townsman named Cordell Hull. Sometimes, when Gore met Hull on the Courthouse Square, they would sit on the roots of a big sugar-maple tree...
About the time of the Civil War, the grass roots of American painting started to wither. Photography and the color lithographs of Currier & Ives beat the primitive professionals out. But now, with amateur primitives burgeoning year by year, the nation's art may be in the process of developing a brand-new set of grass roots...
...this is well understood by General Henri Navarre and his hardheaded lieutenants in the war theater. They hold that the best outcome of Geneva would be an agreement by Red China to stop supplying the Viet Minh. Then, they say, "Ho Chi Minh would wither on the vine, like the guerrilla leader Markos in Greece." But what price would the Moscow-Peking axis exact for such a boon? If the enemy offered it at all, the price would be high. To which Paris replies, hopefully, that they detect an "appetite for negotiations" and signs of inner tiredness among the Viet...
...after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline. (Marx's translation: After the triumph of scientific socialism in the classless society, the state would "wither away" because men, purged of the evil of class conflict, would not need...