demise

[Wilson Gray]

" ... looked at each other with a wild demise
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien, CT."

-Wilson

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And earlier:
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> 1989 David Held _Political Theory and the Modern State_  (Stanford U.P.)
> 128: Relating such findings to phenomena such as the demise in support for
> the two major parties....
>
> 1990 Richard B. Baldauf &  Allan Luke _Language Planning and Education in
> Australasia and the South Pacific_ (Multilingual Matters) 291:
> With the demise in educational television in Samoa, there has been a loss of
>
> interest in educational programs being developed there.
>
> 1990 could mean "demise ['loss'] of," but that would be noteworthy in
> itself.
>
> JL
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Some earlier discussion somewhere.
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>> A CNN commentator reporting earlier today on Obama's current "favorabity
>> rating" drew attention to the "demise in the Democratic numbers."
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>> Since Obama's popularity is reported at 52%, down from the last time, the
>> word clearly means "decline."
>>
>> Bonus: Contrast "left-wing" CNN's house-style "Democratic Party" with "fair
>> and balanced" Fox's "Democrat Party."
>>
>> JL
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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