Word: decrepit
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...spending an entire Saturday--morning to late evening--rewiring and trying to shore up the shamefully decrepit Agassiz Theatre...
...Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field. Yet she exhibits no rancor...
...efforts of committed citizens like Polly Williams in Milwaukee prove that school choice works. And families in selected communities who have this choice are grateful. The potential of the Whittle Project and America 2000 make the concept even more exciting. American citizens must be given the choice to escape decrepit public schools in favor of superior learning environments. The United States simply cannot afford to fall any further behind in educating the next generation of Americans than it already...
Once built for the training of young Native Americans, Indian College later served as a publishing house before it was declared decrepit and razed. Its foundation never turned...
After a year away from Weld, I can better understand what needed to be improved. In the same way, I can take a step back from Harvard in the summer, reflect, and see things a little more clearly. I now realize that while Harvard isn't decrepit, a little reconstruction would serve it well...