Word: decrepit
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Exuberantly Il Duce concluded: "By the year 1950 Italy will be the only country of young people in Europe, while the rest of Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit. People will come from over the frontier to see the phenomenon of this blooming Spring of the Italian people...
...confused with Zaro Agha, decrepit Turk, now in U. S. pretending he is 156 years old (TIME...
...financial abettor of the American Judiciary Society for the Prevention of Delays in the Law, an endower of Michigan charities by his will to the extent of more than $40,000,000; at his home in Manistee, Mich., where he had long lived the solitary life and worn the decrepit clothes of the pioneer lumberjack...
...Klein, prosperous Cincinnati lawyer, hastened to the station, was less astounded to find his vagrant friend James Eads How there than to see him so decrepit. They sped to the Klein home. A doctor was summoned...
Other changes in the rules: Where formerly children under 14 were not admitted to fights, now all may go. All must pay, except sucklings. To ensure lively fights and no decrepit bulls, the latter must be at least four and no more than seven years old; must weigh at least 470 kilos (approx. 1128 lb.). They shall receive at least three punzadas (goadings), and more if not particularly brave or wild. Other parts of the code provide that: There shall be four horses for each bull, all horses to be at least 2.7 metres high...