Word: morbidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morbid Fantasy." The Greek dispute was the most difficult (and potentially the most dangerous) problem for Gromyko and U.N. It was also quite a problem for the Greeks. Last week came new reports about the Communist International Brigade (which Gromyko dismissed as a mere "morbid fantasy"). Estimates of its strength ran from 5,000 to 50,000 men. A recruiting drive is going on in Western Europe as well as the Balkans...
...Koussevitzky's interpretation may be subject to personal criticism, but it is a warm, lyric approach that does full justice to the cyclical construction and almost earthy quality of the music. For, despite name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
White people who live in tropical climates-according to Kipling, Conrad, Somerset Maugham and other tale-spinners-generally suffer a morbid decay called tropical deterioration. Not so, say the scientists. A monumental study recently published in Medicine argues that white men, if well-fed and guarded against disease, can thrive in the tropics...
...sure they are as I once was. You find strength at the old roots of England. But you also find the creeping, dangerous illusion that freedom consists of equality at any price. The determination that nobody shall have an advantage over anybody else is taking on a morbid and destructive quality that may in the long run be more disastrous than all the country's other troubles...
Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate...