Word: moribundity
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...main search was for a receiver who would accept the responsibility for a moribund concern. Barring calamities at home & abroad, the Republicans were a cinch to win in 1948. Using this year's congressional elections as a base, Pollster George Gallup computed a G.O.P. victory by 317 electoral votes...
remained practically stationary, losing some votes to the center and right parties, which were aided by Charles de Gaulle's pre-election pronouncements, and picking up others from dissatisfied Socialists. A clearly moribund party, the Socialists lost votes in all directions, dropping at least 27 seats, perhaps more. Mourned Socialist Yves Dechezelle: "A crisis of democracy!" Although they got only 29% of the popular vote, the Communists had again become France's largest party. As party and interparty caucuses brought political heads together this week, the question was whether the Reds would enter a coalition government with...
...ahead with their program that by this time they . . . have got a head start over the Western world. . . . Our only hope of combatting the Russian campaign is to use our resources in building up the non-munitions industry of western Germany. There is a long way to go. So moribund have we been that the economic activity in the British and American zones is nowhere even near the low level permissible under the tattered Potsdam accord. It is because of this tardiness-resulting from our unreciprocated faithfulness to the Potsdam agreement-that a . . . plan has become essential...
...Philadelphia's Shibe Park last week, a newspaper delivery truck screeched to a stop. The driver dumped his papers and grinned, "What's going on around here, a World Series?" He knew the answer, and so did nearly everybody else in Philadelphia: the team that had been moribund for 28 years,* and in eighth place in the National League for seven out of eight years, was suddenly the livest thing in baseball...
...sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...