Word: moribundity
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...decision to relieve General Stilwell represents the political triumph of a moribund, anti-democratic regime that is more concerned with maintaining its political supremacy than in driving the Japanese out of China. America is now committed ... to support a regime that has become increasingly unpopular and distrusted in China, that maintains three secret police services and concentration camps for political prisoners, that stifles free speech and resists democratic forces...
...long moribund Liberal Party, with its minuscule representation in Parliament (19 members out of 615), "Bev" was indeed a catch. Even the rumored intention of Field Marshal Montgomery to join the Party after the war paled before the presence of Britain's No. 1 social-security expert among the Liberal members. With a general election likely next year, both the Liberal Party and its distinguished recruit firmly believe that Britain is on the eve of a Liberal revival- a genuine interest by the "disillusioned"' middle classes in the Party's progressive program. With pride Party chiefs pointed...
...gangrene had forced repeated amputations of her left arm up to the shoulder: "As a last resort, penicillin was given after all hope had been abandoned for a recovery, which came like a miracle." There was a doctor in Sioux Falls, S.D., who was astonished to save a man moribund with osteomyelitis and septicemia after sulfadiazine had failed: "This being the first case in which I have employed penicillin therapy, I feel that the results obtained, to say the least, were miraculous...
Spies and 6%. In a world at war, in a world busily inventing new types of international currency and banking instrumentalities, the Bank for International Settlements has passed almost completely from public notice. (It was created primarily for the purpose of handling German reparations under the now-moribund Young Plan.) Periodically the B.I.S. is accused, in the House of Commons, the U.S. Congress and else where of being: 1 ) a clearing house of international espionage; 2) a shelter of international finance; 3) an instrument of possible appeasement...
...Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...