Word: decayed
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Speaking to the Mid-winter meeting of the Chicago Dental Society, the men asserted that their study of the changes in structure might inaugurate further experimentation on the causes of tooth decay. They added that, eventually the research might show what to put in a dental diet...
Many even develop a kind of attachment for the dreary camp life, the crowded rooms, the bare electric light bulbs. In this lazy, squalid existence they keep warm and they get food. Whatever skills the men once had have rusted from disuse. It would take strong character to resist decay, and many of these people do not have strong characters. Out of the lives of the rejected have gone dignity and hope...
...works for the Americans "because you're winning the war." Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense of honor...
...first and most powerful impression of Russia was one of fantastic decrepitude; almost everything - roads and railways, buildings new or old - is in a state of the utmost decay. Leaving Moscow, the main roads are of tar for a certain distance, and then either dwindle into narrow strips, or revert to broken and undulating cobbles and to earth...
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre went on grubbing for the sources of France's moral decay in Troubled Sleep, while Marcel Aymé took a tolerant satirist's view of that same decay in The Miraculous Barber. Sweden's Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize (he was Faulkner's runner-up last year) soon after his Barabbas was published in the U.S. It was the story of a brutish man, spared from crucifixion in place of Jesus, who carried the memory of Golgotha through the rest of his life. Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist...