Word: decrepit
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Many a student-and many a paying parent-is outraged over the housing pinch. "It's impossible to study here," complains Dan Rossberger, a Cornell freshman living in a study lounge with four others. Meanwhile 200 Boston University students, assigned to three decrepit buildings hastily leased by the school, say they must try to study while cockroaches dart across their feet, workmen fix plaster above their heads and prostitutes ply their trade near...
Henry Morgenthau III, president of the Friends of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said the Hillel Society is in "kind of a crisis situation." He called its current home at 1 Bryant Street "decrepit and overcrowded" and said the new building is in need of extensive renovation...
...Manhattan criminal court, some prisoners shouted protests against the heat and overcrowding. To handle the overflow, the city reopened the Tombs, a Manhattan jail that had been closed by federal court order in 1974 as too decrepit. Feeding the prisoners was a serious problem at first because most restaurants had closed for lack of electricity. Many families brought food to relatives behind bars. Others subsisted on coffee and rolls...
...much to celebrate in a city that has 80,000 job seekers for only 10,000 jobs. French troops turned over a few barracks to the Djibouti army, but only after removing air conditioners, overhead fans and even fuses in an unnecessary show of Gallic arrogance. Some of the decrepit, stone, Arab-style buildings downtown got a new coat of whitewash, and a few strings of colored lights went up. But five days before the festivities no flags of the new republic were in evidence. They were being made in France and would not arrive until the last minute...
...Greatest is a direct descendant of this decrepit breed. The scenes are shot and played as if there were no money for retakes, and the script refuses to entertain even a hint that its hero may at any time have acted any role less than that of a natural nobleman...