Word: defunction
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...defunct Metropolitan Transit Authority offered the Yards for sale two years ago, when the University and several private developers actually submitted bids. The sale collapsed, however, when the MTA was unable to move the Yards' repair facilities to a site in Dorchester...
...appellate court in Philadelphia last week, other judges had their say about obscenity as they upheld a five-year federal rap and $42,000 fine against Ralph Ginsburg, publisher of the leering (now defunct) quarterly Eros, whom a lower court had convicted on 28 counts of mailing obscenity. Eros, ruled the appellate court, was "an operation on the part of experts in the shoddy business of pandering to, and exploiting for money, one of the great weaknesses of human beings...
...chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory or in imagination, because of a rape he committed (or may have committed) many years before. His intrusion first subverts, then...
Such talk still goes over well in Arkansas, and Faubus is favored over Rockefeller. Even so, there should be one benefit: Rockefeller has already pumped enormous new energy into the once defunct Arkansas Republican Party, has 10,000 workers out beating the precincts for votes, even managed to find 172 Republican candidates to run for local offices this year, compared with a measly seven who dared try in 1960. And Rockefeller has committed himself to run for Governor again in 1966. "Win or lose," he says, "there'll be a two-party system in Arkansas after...
...real future lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research, is in the running for a contract to build a manned orbiting laboratory, and is building a $15 million space research-and-development center as the next step toward landing more space-age contracts...