Word: moribundity
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...rival Eastern and Western blocs, though he makes a good living by playing one off against the other. He thus becomes a potentially useful middleman. In his old worrisome days, he sought the help of capitalistic Greece and Turkey against Moscow. Now Khrushchev would like to revive this moribund Balkan pact, hoping thereby to loosen the ties of Greece and Turkey to NATO. Greece and Turkey, of course, could be expected to say no, and to reaffirm their loyalty to NATO. But since they are themselves on the outs over Cyprus, and each in its own way a little...
When the new Turkish republic of Kemal Ataturk took over from the moribund Ottoman Empire after World War I, the ancient glories of Constantinople were already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing...
...occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...
Having released his special demons of Caesarism, De Riencourt in a kind of guilty afterthought tries to pour the jinn back into the bottle and mix with the tonic of a higher historical synthesis: he lamely concludes that there are "ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture while retaining all the good and necessary features of Civilization...
...hedging and ditching. Engels sadly noted that Americans were "practical" but tremendously backward in "theory." At first the Socialist movement in the U.S. was largely staffed by immigrants who had a sharper taste for theory, and the Socialist Labor Party of North America would have remained a "small, moribund, foreign-language sect" had not practical, native forces been stirring...