Word: decayed
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...campaign is the result of a statement issued by the house's Board of Trustees that if the building is not repaired quickly it will decay beyond repair. In soliciting donations, Welldon has sent out letters to a list of alumni chosen for their interest in Angle-American affairs...
...learning of the house's decay, the trustees offered it to the British National Trust, a government organization for the protection of memorials and parks. The Ministry of Works replied that it could only accept fully endowed properties for the trust...
Though they bear the mark of the poet's workbench, with words missing or a choice of words still undecided-as, for instance, between decay and worn away-most of the poems nonetheless lilt their way through the favorite Housman themes of love, war, death, courage, the transient beauty of life and the ironies of loving and leaving it. As ever, Housman is chiefly the laureate of youth. (Critic Cyril Connolly once pointed out that in 63 poems, Housman used the word "lad" 67 times.) If few of the lines from the Manuscript are memorable, they are all refreshingly...
...Kremlin, the Congressional Library's research staff found, "has been hiding its lesser economic strength...to propagate the idea that the economies of the West are in decay...The present economic capacity of Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada is significantly greater in terms of absolute magnitudes, diversity and flexibility than the combined strength of the Soviet bloc...
...tried in bits and pieces which, said President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Housing, "simply will not work. Occasional thrusts at slum pockets in one section of a city will only push slums to other sections unless an effective program exists for attacking the entire problem of urban decay." Part of the problem lies outside the worst slums, in neighborhoods where middle-income homeowners have let their property become shabby...