Word: wither
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...bite of Death, the shivering of the dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and the malediction of God and man. We shall call for the same injuries upon those who at the coming elections shall vote for the Traitor Venizelos, and we shall further pray for their hands to wither and for them to become deaf and blind...
...undertaking the task of trying to help define and change the relation between the church and the political-economic setup that now prevails. The church must reassert her independence, or wither and die. . . . I hope to get a hearing from the 40,000 students that throng Boston, from victims of unemployment and from radicals...
...final draft, with promised revisions, would ultimately be written in conference. Only Ferdinand Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give...
...spite of this adamantine logic favoring the scheme, there is a danger that inter-house debating, like so many good and moral things, may be too delicate a flower for the harsh breath of existence, and so fall and wither away from lack of strength. The one iron and strychnine tonic to prevent this disaster is Interest. To quicken interest there is one sure formula, to capture fancy in the topic for debate. If the sponsors of the innovation act wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate...
...insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with feelings of transiency which wither much of their charm...