Word: decrepit
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...British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...
...Crochets are a peculiar bunch. They live in a decrepit shack in the bayous, breed children at will, and dream about building a house to go with the beautiful doorstep their oldest son found floating down the river one day. Papa is lazy, shiftless, and--inevitably--lovable. Mother is patient. The children are characters. And that's the play, with bliss in the form of a bunch of lilies inevitably hoisting the Crochets a step nearer heaven...
...hesitate to leave the eminence of the Supreme Court, and its $20,000-a-year income for life, for a job that will be one of the meanest in the war effort. He well remembers his humble background: he was born after his father's death in a decrepit Charleston house, delivered the dresses that his mother sewed for a living, started as a law-firm office boy at 14, worked up to being a court reporter and studied law on the side. (He still takes his own shorthand notes at 150 words a minute.) Said Jimmy Byrnes last...
...minute later a squadron of absolutely World War model biplanes took after the B25. These machines were so decrepit that the wind from our bomber was enough to scatter them. After this the American raider flew away unchallenged and disappeared against the side of Fujiyama...
...reign, he turned a ferocious drawing pen on post-war Germany, ripped at its vitals in thousands of drawings that resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble-jawed soldiers fighting crazily in corpse-strewn ruins; scrofulous, consumptive veterans (see cut, opposite page) coughing out pointless lives amid degeneration and squalor. Of all Germany's "degenerate" artists, Nazis numbered him first. In 1932, despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled...