Word: moribundity
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...Mafia's monopoly of menace might have grown greater forever, but along came a bulkier bully: Benito Mussolini. On his orders, suspected Mafiosi were drenched with brine and whipped, their hair and nails were torn out, their soles were burned. By World War II, the Mafia was practically moribund...
Like Spillane's other hero, Mike Hammer, Tiger Mann is not tough at all, merely brutal. The book opens with Mann gratuitously killing an enemy who is already moribund. It ends with Mann's equally unnecessary murder of a woman with whom, following inflexible habit, he has shacked up. Between bloodlettings, Mann saves the world from nuclear destruction. It is a parody of Hammett, though an unconscious one, and it might be funny if Spillane could write...
...device that might help: a "half-heart" to assist the left ventricle by partially bypassing it (see diagram). An instrument based on the same principle but of different design and materials had been first tried in man 2½ years ago, when Dr. DeBakey used it to keep a moribund patient alive for 3½ days (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), and for only the second time last February, when Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used a comparable device for 24 hours...
...vial-encased blood, according to tradition, miraculously bubbles three times each year. Gennaro's blood bubbles daily. The ebullient bastard child of a peasant mother and soldier father, he divides his zealous energies between caring for his impoverished, half-paralyzed Chinese grandfather and carrying on grandfather's moribund undertaking establishment...
...reference to Mary Frances as being stodgy was made about another performer in the cast. If Mary Frances is stodgy, then Sammy Davis is taciturn, moribund and laconic. For weeks at a time we have to keep her in a strait jacket...