Word: moribundity
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...roughest takeover battle in British history, the ancient and slightly moribund textile-making firm of Courtaulds, Ltd. barely held off giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. last year by promising to mend its ways. The world's second biggest synthetic fiber manufacturer (after Du Pont), Courtaulds pledged an end to the secretive, damn-the-investor attitude prevailing since the firm was founded 147 years ago by Huguenot refugees named Courtauld. It also predicted that fiscal 1963 would bring a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings to $65 million...
Each time a Samuel Beckett play has a world première, the world turns a deeper shade of black. Once his people were hopefully waiting for Godot; later they crouched in garbage cans in Endgame; Krapp was moribund while listening to his last tape; then in Happy Days, the female lead kept sinking deeper and deeper into a mound. Now Beckett's characters have gone all the way to hell in a play called Play, which has just opened in West Germany...
Fourteen years later, the program of General Education in science seemed moribund because no one, outside of a small hard core of dedicated professors, wanted to teach the courses. Examining the problems, the Bruner Committee, a subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, essentially recommended that the limits on the substance of a Gen Ed course be removed in order to entice Faculty members into the program. "The course we envisage will, therefore, be general in its implications, but its generality will not derive from a technological, survey-like, methodological, or historical approach. At its center will be elementary instruction...
...wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter, President Kennedy's special representative for trade negotiations, hastened to London to discuss new tariff-cutting strategy between the two nations to increase Anglo-U.S. trade. Britain also started a round of conferences with its hapless friends in the moribund Outer Seven trade bloc, and on a flying trip to Rome, Harold Macmillan assured Italy's leaders of Britain's eagerness for continued cooperation with Europe...
...have no quarrel with Robert M. Myers and his business success in running the Lapeer (Mich.) County Press [Dec. 21], but when you reprinted his uncalled-for remark that the "American rural weekly is valueless, lily-livered and moribund," you did thousands of aggressive community weekly publishers an injustice...