Word: decay
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...nobles were cutting off the ears of outspoken foes. Happily, Guinness has his own ideas of how the role ought to be played. Hobbled by a stutter, consoled by a piety that assures him a crown in heaven, Guinness' Charles I is a not unsympathetic custodian of decay, unable to negotiate-how could a King make bargains?-even for his own life...
Hubert Williams was a sergeant and precinct commander in the most heavily hit area during the 1967 New-ark race riots and has walked a beat for eight years in that city, which some people point to as the finest example of urban decay in the nation...
...campus mayhem and rising crime have added not only social hazards but also economic costs to everyday life. When a house is burglarized or a school vandalized, almost everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed...
...Reek's familiar and rather simplistic view of German history that compels the reader to keep turning the pages of his diary. It is his obsessive imagination of disaster, his specific visions of decay. Even in the mid-'30s, Reck saw Hitler as the culmination of an age of pseudorationalism that would destroy itself with its own greed, stupidity and madness. His pages are full of fleeting evidence: workers lined up in front of bordellos in broad daylight, language corrupted beyond nonsense, people bombed into insanity carrying their dead children in suitcases from city to city...
Second: When employers and employees apparently hold a shared anxiety about inflation, they are actually talking in different tongues. Wage-earners are debating alternative remedies for accelerating material decay, expressibly both as a decline in the personal wage-salary revenues and impoverishment of generalized social welfare equipment (schools, transportation, health facilities, etc.)-the furniture of social life...