Word: withered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irish Rovers on the juke box, and a suspicious tendency to switch channels when the Irish Spring commercials come on the T.V. Maybe that says something about the Cambridge inebriate set, which apparently has no appreciation of the value of good talk and a friendly atmosphere in which to wither one's brain cells. Obviously a sad case...
...Doth Not Wither...
...study is concluded. But the town's farmers are determined to fight such an order in the courts. Says Don Bones, president of the Citizens' Committee to Save the Littlerock Dam, Inc.: "Without water, Littlerock would revert to the desert it was 100 years ago. It would wither and die." It appears that Littlerock will be damned if the courts do approve drainage and dammed if they...
...faced, breathless Philadelphian" and who remains a living legend within The Crimson's portals, told me last November that I hadn't the least idea what miscellaneousness meant, and I stopped writing this column. For reasons beyond my control, however, I'm taking it up again--age doth not wither nor custom stale...
Advocates of a federal Agency for Consumer Advocacy have never had easy going. Since 1970, bills to create such a watchdog have passed the House or Senate several times, only to wither in conference committees or under threat of a presidential veto. But persistence pays. Last week the future suddenly seemed brighter when President Carter, fulfilling a campaign promise, called for setting up a federal body to guard consumer interests...