Word: defunction
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...Local historians maintain that the town helped popularize the word "booze." The term was coined earlier but gained wide currency when a now-defunct Glassboro glassworks made cabin-shaped bottles for William Henry Harrison's 1840 log-cabin presidential campaign. The contents were supplied by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz...
Bond himself seems to be weakening: for the first time he needs outside help to finish the job. After finding the cache of stolen rockets in the defunct volcano, he is captured. As Blofeld prepares to annihilate him, hundreds of Japanese commandos-the Eastern equivalent of the U.S. cavalry-come to the rescue. At the finale, the volcano blows its stack. Alas, the effects are ineffective. The outer-space sequences would be more appropriate in a grade school educational short entitled Our Amazing Universe, and the volcanic climax is a series of clumsy process shots that no one took...
...left alive except eight young women and one old one (Beta Poničanová), who wander like nomads over the sere landscape. The nubile girls have never seen a man; their leader can scarcely remember what one looks like. Equipped with some of the trappings of the defunct civilization-tin cans, rifles, combat boots-they live like savages, telling the years by counting the rings of a tree trunk, hunting by blasting fish out of the river water with grenades...
...students' presentation, prepared by an anonymous group which calls itself "the ad hoc committee," was -- according to one of its coordinators -- a "completely new approach" to the Visiting Committee. In the past, a few representatives from the now-defunct student council discussed "short-term gripes" about specific courses and professors...
...revolted against the overlords of that tribe. Bodies were mangled and terror reigned over the otherwise peaceful isles. But within a few weeks after the initial uprising a representative of the ignorant slaves (who by that time were armed and immensely powerful) pleaded with the young son of a defunct overlord that the slaves might return to their former bondage. The young boy who had been educated in England did not want the slaves back. The angry savages killed the lad on the spot and mangled his body...