Word: moribundity
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...House of Commons seat from a rural riding. Most Quebec M.P.s insist on speaking French in Ottawa; Lesage gamely practiced his halting English in the House until he mastered it. In 1958 he resigned his Parliament seat to take on the job of reviving Quebec's moribund Liberal organization. He is married to a former concert soprano, Corinne Lagarde, has four children...
...Doty extracted solutions of DNA from bacteria and heated them to the boiling point for ten minutes. When a solution cooled quickly, it was found to have lost nearly all its biological potency. If cooled slowly, taking several hours to get back down to room temperature, 50% of the moribund DNA regained its activity. When it was applied to living bacteria, it changed their hereditary characteristics by a process called "transformation," which is considered a test for the potency...
...group of Ivy League Rockefeller enthusiasts, headed by Benson D. Scotch 2L, is planning an attempt to bring back to life the moribund Rocky-for-President movement...
...Mayor Wagner is not the most forceful of politicians, he at least will not be tainted with the label of "boss." And as De Sapio has been decidedly anti-liberal, New Yorkers can now expect to see a resurgence of the Lehman-Finletter-Roosevelt wing of the party. The moribund condition of Democratic politics in New York State seems to be over at last...
...German-French alliance is "the laughing stock of the world," cried Bonn's General-Anzeiger, and the influential Stuttgarter Zeitung complained: "De Gaulle has assigned us the role of mere pedestal for his power." The long-moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that...