Word: outworn
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...author, Haile Selassie had set about turning his country into a modern nation, hoping to learn, as Japan had quickly done, from Europe and America. Restored to his throne, however, he did less to open his country to the future than to close it within the past, preserving outworn traditions, and his own tenure, long after their usefulness had passed...