Word: parlous
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...Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their neighbors back to churchgoing...
Thomas E. Dewey reported a parlous situation in the governor's mansion in Albany. The bathroom in the McKinley guest suite needed a new toilet seat, but for three months, said Dewey, "the entire majesty of New York State and all the resources at its command" proved unable to find one. Shocked sympathizers promptly dispatched replacements-one by air from Tacoma, Wash...
...might be resumed again, with greater fury. In the parlous state of China's communications, not even Chungking knew the full situation. But in China's latest war crisis there was some hope that disaster had been staved off once again...
...answer to Cassandra was the same as it had always been: there was something in what she said about Troy's parlous position, but it was her kinsfolk who went on to found Rome...
...reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world division of labor. The result is the present world anarchy of tariffs, quota systems, prohibition of immigration, subsidized dumping of goods, competitive currency devaluation, armament races. For the parlous state of humanity Mises is inclined to blame the West as well as Germany. After all, he says, state interventionism in the economic process began in France and England...