Word: decrepit
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...What panic? The panic of the bourgeoisie, of course. . . . For years they knew that this would come. . . . They wanted to continue, to hang on to what they had, to their poor little, dirty, decrepit possessions, and survive . . . just sneak through for another generation. . . . The great whore is about to face judgment...
Although students of municipal government have long agreed that Philadelphia is afflicted with political dry rot, that its water supply and fire protection are decrepit ("Filtered filth!" the late Mayor S. Davis Wilson said of Philadelphia water), few Philadelphia politicians have ever admitted that anything is wrong with their fair city. But last week Philadelphia's bumbling mayor, Robert E. Lamberton, was forced to sit through two detailed and heavily documented indictments of Philadelphia as a place to live...
...Playwright Kirkland's case study in degeneracy, Hollywood has substituted a slow, sentimental account of Jeeter's aged life & times. Jeeter has one decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events...
...shut down to rot after the emergency passed. But in 1941. past performances were a poor guide. The U. S. was committed to a two-ocean Navy, for the first time in its history. Quite possibly the nation would not soon again let its merchant marine decline to the decrepit state it was in at the outbreak of World War II-80% of its vessels obsolete or on the verge. With both Navy and Maritime Commission committed to a three-coast building policy, the South looked to substantial shipyard payrolls for years to come...
...decrepit little wooden house between Tokyo and Yokohama lives a very old man with eyes like flashlight sockets, jaws still strong, a ragged white beard which fails to make him look saintly. His name, Mitsuru Toyama, is seldom spoken. At 85 he is the most feared man in the Far East. Last week he was tolerably happy, for things were going...