Word: moribundity
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...ambulance came quickly, and raced him to St. Joseph's Hospital H miles away. Moribund as he entered the emergency ward, Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was pronounced dead within an hour of the shooting. His death was the twelfth major assassination and the most traumatic in the civil rights struggle since...
Creeping Meatball. After a winter in which the hippie movement seemed so moribund that its own members staged mock burials in honor of its death, the Yippies have suddenly invested it with new life through their special kind of antic political protest. The term Yippie comes from Youth International Party, an amorphous amalgam of the alienated young that coalesced in Manhattan two months ago around a coterie of activist hippies, all in their late 20s and early 30s. "The YIP is a party-like the last word says-not a political movement," argues the East Village's Abbie Hoffman...
...nomination," the Senator said later. "I'm ahead now. There's no point in being anything but optimistic." His showing had a galvanic effect, particularly on the legions of enthusiastic students who poured into New Hampshire to help him (see box opposite). Outside his once moribund New York offices appeared a crude sign: WELL...
Dead Universities. Academic inadequacies are also responsible in part for a series of student upheavals at German universities that are perhaps the most serious of all. There is widespread agreement that the country's once proud centers of learning are, for the most part, hopelessly moribund. Autocratic professors are still kings in their own classrooms, and students complain bitterly about the irrelevance of many lectures. A history student, for example, can study for five years without hearing a single lecture on the Third Reich. Undergraduates receive little or no personal guidance from undermanned faculties: the University of Hamburg...
...sheaf of Johnson's key measures are moribund for this year at least-highway beautification, gun controls, aid to elementary and secondary education and, most significantly, the President's proposal for a 10% income tax surcharge...