Word: withering
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...skilled labor of its 200 million people; it would mean the ultimate loss of all those other areas of political dependency, from which the U.S. draws manganese, copper, uranium, etc. If the U.S. had to stand alone in a world dominated by Communism, "our system would have to wither away. We would suffer economic atrophy and then finally collapse...
...exert great control over "the rest of the world and over the enemy country." Said Taft: "If the Russians realize that that power cannot be challenged and can do real damage to their own nation with the atomic bomb and otherwise, their purpose of military aggression may well wither and peaceful relations in Europe may grow again...
...there are still an estimated 1,000 Protestant and 5,000 Roman Catholic foreign missionary workers in China. But now that the Communist government has rung down the Bamboo Curtain on U.S. activities in China (TIME, Jan. 8), many of the sowers must leave the seed to grow or wither without their care...
...rabbits the disease may be brought on by withholding vitamin E from the diet, and shut off by giving the vitamin. But humans, for some unknown reason, do not react so simply: they may have plenty of vitamin E in their diets, while their muscles, unable to use it, wither away...
...enough nucleoproteins to sustain both itself and the multiplying virus. What happens when this takes place on a large scale is that many nerve cells are destroyed. Unlike most of the body's other cells, they cannot be replaced. Once they are destroyed, the muscles controlled by them wither from disuse, and lasting paralysis results; if the cells are only damaged, the paralysis may be temporary as the cells are repaired and again control the muscles...