Word: decrepit
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...what new norms of logic does Archbishop Mitty conclude that the News is bigoted because it reveals that a Catholic clergyman is capable of sin? If the Church in the archdiocese of San Francisco is so decrepit that it will totter if it becomes known that one of its priests woos John Barleycorn, Pope Pius would do well to appoint a capable successor to Archbishop Mitty...
...endlessly. But somehow the word buzzed around Grenoble's streets : at 7 p.m. six Milice would be shot against a factory wall at the end of the Cours Berriat. By 6 o'clock the rain-drenched streets were jammed with people afoot, on bicycles, in trolleys and decrepit autos, hurrying toward the death scene...
...When the decrepit old highway petered out, the party left its de luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...
...songs which, with the help of an old friend who sings in opera (Metropolitan Diva Risé Stevens), he sells so effectively that the parish, despite a disastrous fire, rises clear of all financial problems. And just before he leaves St. Dominic's to trouble-shoot for another decrepit priest, he brings Father Fitzgibbon's mother across on a surprise trip from Ireland, for the picture's unusually valid and powerful tear-jerking climax...
...nearby Russian soldiers ignored the baseball. But when they discovered the sailors practicing basketball with a decrepit volleyball and backboards erected on the dock, they issued a challenge. After the first quarter, the U.S. scorer quit-his team was so far behind he had lost count. The Russians also challenged the sailors at swimming. After one practice in the icy waters, the sport was dropped...