Word: decrepit
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...Economics. But Trudeau, who was working on a Ph.D. thesis, became restless, one day packed up a knapsack and set out on an 18-month trek through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of his adventures: he swam the Bosporus. Returning to Quebec, Trudeau fought against the decrepit, reactionary regime of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis. He wrote for an intellectual magazine called Cite Libre that helped bring a business and cultural boom to the province. He also worked as a labor lawyer and as an adviser to the Privy Council, later taught law classes at the University of Montreal...
...first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs of the Soviet Union and mercilessly purged "revisionists." Ill suited by training and temperament for any sort of liberalization...
Dominic Meiman is Finn the Irish king. Although Finn is supposed to be a somewhat older fellow, Meiman strikes me as a little too decrepit for a warrior king...
...rebellion on the scale of Watts or Detroit. Yet, like other ghetto dwellers, they have their grievances. In the Inner Core, as Milwaukee's Negro slum is called, unemployment is more than twice as high as in the historically German and Polish districts that surround it. Housing is decrepit in the Core, educational levels as low as in Harlem or Cleveland's Hough...
...Vice President told the Mayors that the problems of urban slums were oppressive. He cited the inadequate collection of garbage, dirty streets, high crime rates and inadequate law enforcement, decrepit housing, and inadequate public transportation as some of the slum's major problems...