Word: moribundity
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...that he is ready to battle right down to the line for at least four states that a few weeks ago were rated solid for Stevenson. From state after state came reports that Ike was holding, or even increasing, his vote among women. The much-publicized farm revolt appeared moribund. Negro shifts to Eisenhower were indicated in such states as New York, Maryland and Delaware. Pollster Lubell's campaign discovery was that "the overwhelming majorities which Franklin Roosevelt and even Harry Truman drew in our largest cities simply aren't there any more...
...completed movie, its blemishes notwithstanding, emerged as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss Whiteside's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...
Nevertheless, he scraped together the money to fetch the moribund Moricand from his rats' castle in Switzerland to the solitude of Miller's own Walden Pond (the Pacific Ocean). Moricand saluted Miller, systematically went about the business of making himself master in Miller's house. He became Mrs. Miller's ally in her daily quarrels with Miller. He demanded gauloises bleues cigarettes, special tooth powder of pumice, writing paper of a special shape. He refused to be pacified by the Pacific, and he plugged his air less room so that no fresh air could leak...
...story. Back in 1951, said Greuter, his friend Reale dropped in at his office, said he was tired of political life, and asked for help in setting up a little import-export business in art objects. Greuter arranged to sell him the stock of an acquaintance's long-moribund holding company, Terbita. But far from quitting public life, Reale got elected to the Italian Senate, and sent a young Italian named Norberto D'Allessandri to Zurich to take care of Terbita. D'Allessandri conducted affairs well, for he soon drove a Jaguar, took an expensive apartment...
...nation's leading educators. Even detractors of the administration's program admitted that the school building proposal was good in principle; federal funds for school construction were urgently needed. Their only reservation was that the bill simply did not grant enough money. Today, however, the measure lies moribund in the House Rules Committee, slowly being strangled by the Powell Amendment...