Word: mortalizes
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...once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
Paying tribute to the Army that "fought so long against such odds," Dr. Negrin attacked the European democracies (especially Great Britain) for turning their backs on Republican Spain. He revealed that his Government, forced to buy contraband munitions wherever it could, had bought some from Germany and Italy, its mortal enemies. "If we lose Catalonia, we shall continue to fight in the central part of Spain," the Premier said. "Nations live not only by victories, but also by the examples they give their people." The Premier's war aims were unanimously approved by the Cortes...
Because Harvard is ageless and men are mortal, the problem is an old one, although as Harvard has grown bigger and bigger the problem has steadily lost its frightening aspect. And there is in this thought a causal pattern which is distinctly encouraging...
...which opened last night with Jane Cowl in the leading role. And yet this sometimes touching story of the petty desires of mankind for excitement and fun and just a little money, is not really so different from the poignant "Our Town" in its sympathetic treatment of the average mortal, a treatment almost Dickensonian in quality which has made Mr. Wilder one of the foremost dramatists of our-time...
...shot followed by a scream of mortal pain! War in Europe? No, merely a suipeshooter on the second floor of Massachusetts Hall taking potshots at passers-by and getting one bullseye...