Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as most 19th Century historians said it was, France's problem would not have arisen. The truth was that the Revolution was made against one of the most successful social structures the world ever saw, still near the height of its vigor at the moment it was attacked. Only the most powerful revolutionary drive could have breached that structure, only the massive vigor of the pre-Revolutionary French...
Amidst this onrush of decay, Ruby fights heroically to preserve the integrity of her own family. When her Scottish husband Gynt becomes a bird-loving mystic and proposes to search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story...
...High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...
...decay and a platitude...
...have organized such a system is not enough. The system itself must move ahead or it will decay. Above all else, the 10,000 or so men and women in the Agricultural Extension Service must be qualified better and better for their tasks...