Word: moribundity
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When French Academician Charles Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration, one newspaper commented: "What a long time for an Immortal!'" Last week the moribund Academy, with 14 of 40 seats vacated by prison terms and natural deaths, muffed its biggest chance in 300 years for a new lease on life...
...Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrück prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan - if their warmth proved therapeutic - was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units...
Soon he had brought into the sprawling, ineffectual Department the once independent War Labor Board, now dying of natural causes; the War Manpower Commission, also moribund; the U.S. Employment Service, which Congress wants to hand back to the states. He hoped also to bring in the National Labor Relations Board...
Hunger & Relief. There was still no comprehensive picture of what Japanese rule had done to China's cities and countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai still had her factories; once their wheels rolled, the metropolis would hum again and Shanghai might well be the mirror of the nation's revival...