Word: decay
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...civilization can no more be evaded by the United States than it could be by their prototype, the Roman republic. [The U.S. and Russia] are among the largest and strongest . . . civilized powers . . . and both are growing larger and stronger while the other powers of Christendom are falling into decay. Build (a) railway between them, and America-and Russia may join hands against the rest of the world on any issue...
Graves & Hodge believe that four main causes make for bad English writing: hurry (dictating bigwigs "use a ragged, conversational style that in the leisured '80s would have been attributed to drink, mental decay, or a vicious upbringing"), flurry (modern writers face many distractions), worry (about becoming definitely committed) and mild schizophrenia (people who must "write from a point of view . . . not their own . . . betray this by hedging, blustering...
...ignored. The treaties forbade union with Germany, failed to provide a substitute anchor. With nearly nine-tenths of her territory gone and all of her old relations with the rest of the Danube Valley disrupted, easygoing Austria slipped forlornly into a coma, unable to live and forbidden to die. Decay set in where gaiety had been. Vienna with nearly 2,000,000 became an oversized head; the rest of Austria, with less than 5,000,000 where the old Empire had over 50,000,000, was the dwarfed and sickening body. Until the coming of Hitler, Austrians mostly believed that...
...with skill and fury but it could not deny victory to the Russians. What it desperately sought now was to survive as an army, establish yet another line of defense, prevent the infection of defeat from spreading northward. It remained a powerful fighting organism. But there were signs of decay. Behind the Russian lines straggled mobs of dejected prisoners. Except at a few picked points, the German defense in the south was confused and ill-directed...
...Journal of the American Dental Association last week, Dentist S. G. Harootian told how he gave the Deaf Smith treatment a preliminary clinical trial in a Massachusetts madhouse. Dr. Harootian gave capsules of bone flour (rich in calcium, phosphorus and fluorine) to nine women whose teeth were decaying very rapidly. Decay seemed to stop almost at once. During the nine-month trial no tooth decay spread, only one new cavity developed. One hole, drilled for a filling but left empty, did not decay...