Word: moribundity
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...members from granting credits for the sale of armaments to Japan. And diplomatically she might forestall any Japanese assertion of belligerent rights to search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show...
...Washington one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace made two announcements. One was that R. A., moribund since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy and that, when its first tenants move in about Oct. 1, all Greenbelt's commercial enterprises will be run by a branch of Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene's Consumer Distribution Corp...
...arose for describing a practice or an article not described with sufficient patness by any word of the standard language. Now if Mr. Foster's Jimplecute takes hold and flourishes again, the national tongue may be enriched with a useful word for characterizing a thing once great, recently moribund, and once more reviving. There is real need for such a word. Phoenix is too classical a term, associated with the speech of political spellbinders and suggesting Arizona or life insurance to the casually trained; comeback, while genuinely native, has too verbal a connotation and is associated in the American...
...producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...sheet's motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Everlastingly." Peak Jimplecute circulation, in the 1880s, was around 5,000. A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still had an air of faded grandeur, however, sufficient to impress young Barry Benefield, a local boy who later made his home town the scene of best-selling Valiant is the Word for Carrie...