Word: withers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question is whether the Liberal support that has been blooming in the by-elections will wither in the next general election, to be held by 1975. Almost no politician, including Liberal loyalists who have been disappointed by short-lived revivals before, believes that the party has a chance of forming the next government. But even if current support continues at the same level-roughly 26% in the public opinion polls and 32% in by-election ballots-the Liberals could well become a major force for the first time since Lloyd George's government a half-century...
...them in the tumor. The spheres confined the viscous, quick-setting silicone, preventing it from entering the main bloodstream, where it could cause obstructions. The solidified silicone will remain in the patient for the rest of his life. But the tumor, its blood vessels blocked, has already begun to wither...
...time as undergraduates learning a common language by which they can communicate with each other. If successful, the liberal education will develop a lawyer's view of life, his tolerance for other people and other life styles, and his sense of where this world should be going. To know wither we are going, it is essential to know where we have been...
...associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
...cripple the Communist war effort, President Johnson acceded to the military's request to knock out the country's oil supplies. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. had predicted that such action "would either bring the enemy to the conference table or cause the insurgency to wither." During the summer of 1966, U.S. warplanes destroyed at least 70% of North Viet Nam's stationary oil-storage capacity, but the destruction had no discernible effect on Communist morale or war effort. Meanwhile, a distinguished group of 47 U.S. scientists met in a seminar at Wellesley, Mass., under...