Word: decayed
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...came into the door [with] his bushy eyebrows, his watery gray eyes, his chin and the double chin under it ... one of France's great modern revolutionary figures . . . His gray face had a look of decay. [It] looked as though it were modelled from the waste material you find under the claws of a very old lion . . . 'He may be a glory and all,' said a corporal . . . 'But he is crazy as a bedbug. He has a mania for shooting people...
...Kennan's catchword. As "Mr. X" writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...
Aside from keeping and breeding the usual small animals--hamsters, rats, mice--this Animal Farm has successfully bred monkeys. It now possesses a baby Java and a baby rhesus. Both varieties of monkeys are used in a study of the endocrine factors in tooth decay...
...issue of corruption in the Truman Administration has been used as a symbol of the moral decay of government. Much over-exaggerated, it is hardly the monster that certain campaign speeches have made it out to be. But what corruption does exist Truman has failed to handle swiftly or competently. His attempts to clean up the government, such as by appointing Newbold Morris, have ended in dismal failure...
Says he: "There would be a touch of megalomania in the project . . . but without megalomania of this sort, nothing can be done, for we have reached that stage of intellectual decay where little things will not avail...