Word: moribundity
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...right is Young Europe, a few hundred students who feel that Franco is actually too liberal, has abandoned fascism. Somewhere near this crowd are the moribund remnants of the Falange, the onetime fascist party that Franco used to gain power; Falangists today are opportunistic, scattered and weak. At the other extreme, on the far left, are outfits like the Popular Liberation Front, whose Marxist leader has been in jail since 1959. Roughly in the political center are: 1) the Christian Democrats, led by Jose Maria Gil Robles, 63, a prominent Madrid lawyer, and 2) the Liberals, whose spokesman has been...
...White Elephant. Promoted to engineer by the railroad. Royboy revived the moribund railroaders' trade union and became its leader. He then set out on a self-education program, broke railroad rules on his trips by turning the throttle over to the fireman; by the light of the firebox, he devoured books from Karl Marx to Sherlock Holmes...
...progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, has been mentioned; he will announce his decision this week...
...month, the prestige of Britain's ruling Conservative Party was in a shocking state. The Tories not only had the Labor Party to contend with these days (a most unsatisfactory alternative to most British voters), but were now confronted with a new popularity surge by the long moribund Liberals. Last week, fearful of disaster in still another by-election, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself hurried to the grimy, North Country industrial town of Stockton-on-Tees to throw his weight behind the Tory candidate...
...still pertinent analogy Kennedy wrote: "A boxer cannot work himself into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years. There was too much reliance upon the moribund League of Nations and the attenuated Disarmament Conference; too little attention was paid to the avowed long-range aims of the fascist governments...