Word: decrepit
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...quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes--the whole thing suggestive of some mediaeval theologian spinning his scholastic cobwebs out of a decrepit, hacked-over text. It was most strongly suggestive, however, of four extremely competent musicians going through a terrific technical work...
...straightforward-not to say, brutally frank-as its title, "The Westerner" sticks up to its neck in the woolly, daredevil days of the frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...
...menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats, and numerous zoo animals, Germany last week added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food (TIME, July 15). A new law, effective Jan. 1, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalized as meat. After being inspected for trichina, their carcasses will be dressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers...
Like the boy in British Cartoonist Henry Bateman's cartoon, who went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...
While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels...