Word: decay
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...whole country seemed insane: wherever he looked, he said, "barbarism prevailed." In bold, sure strokes he drew gluttons, drunks, lechers, murderers. He drew officers, paunchy businessmen, high society women with animal appetites and animal indifference to the suf fering of others. It was a world of sadism and decay hiding behind a facade of monocles and iron crosses. From time to time Grosz was arrested and fined, but he kept up the attack until he crossed the Atlantic...
...apparent now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imaginations, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...
...left no track on the photographic plate as it careened through the bubble chamber. To locate anti-Xi-zero, the physicists first had to find the byproducts of the collision that produced it. These visible byproducts could only have been balanced by the invisible anti-Xi-zero, which would decay an instant later, leaving visible debris. Of the 300,000 photographs they examined, only three showed the predicted evidence of collision and decay that could only have come from anti-Xi-zero...
...clear now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imagination, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...
Today, their houses still stand. Some have been left to molder into drafty decay. But many of them have been updated with hot running water and good food, and have opened as inns. More and more tourists, tired of Hiltonia, have sought them out, willingly sacrificing a color telephone in every room for a sense of history and splendor. The best of the current batch of castle-hotels offer not only the built-in magic of a legendary site but also the charm of Old World prices-just the thing for a democrat who feels, as Toots Shor once observed...