Word: withering
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...river Don, deep in Cossack country, in the tiny village of Veshenskaya, lives gentle-mannered Mikhail Sholokhov. There, under the straw which roofs his three-room cottage, Sholokhov watches the great river swell and wither with the seasons and writes novels (such as And Quiet Flows the Don) which are the closest approach to enduring literature that revolutionary Russia has produced. An impressed American once said of Sholokhov: "He writes for no censorship except truth...
...neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
This languid family novel will presumably be read in December by hundreds of thousands of Americans: it has been graced by the Book-of-the-Month Club stamp of approval. Otherwise, this long, tedious triple-decker would probably be doomed to wither on the vines of suburban circulating libraries...
...state designed (by optimistic Leninist-Marxist prophecy) to wither away, officers had been receiving only spotty respect and obedience. Now that the state was sprouting stronger & stronger, they were given new power & glory: "The senior in command is not to leave unpunished a single offense. . . . Officers . . . have the right ... to make declarations concerning misuse and shortcomings. . . . Courts of Honor have been created for the guarding of the dignity and honor of the officers' rank...
...plot revolves around an attempt by the powers of Evil to take over the earth. Evil's chief terrestrial representatives: a brace of devils (appropriately named John Wither and Professor Frost) who administer the vast N.I.C.E., an organization to handle postwar England's technology and scientific development-ostensibly for the benefit of the common man. The champions of Good: a handful of rather painfully decent English types under the leadership and protection of the trilogy's hero, Dr. Ransom. In Lewis' sure hands the story becomes well-written, fast-paced satirical fantasy...