Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World's Fair. City planners are hopeful that the city may grow out that way. Besides, come summer, they hope business will be better: along the subway's lonely route is the railroad station...
...cases on which the police were working was that of an old derelict who had been beaten up by two boys. One of the boys had red hair. The detectives' patrol was interrupted by two vagrants who ran out of the "park" (actually a paved space with benches) to say that some boys were molesting them. "Has one of them got red hair?" asked one of the cops. "Yes," they said. The police ran into the park, arrested two teenagers; later, two others were picked...
...irritated rasp, is the certainty that everyone responds to the laws of the land and to the orders of superiors, all the way up to the Commander in Chief. As any military man should know, the Army has its own recourse for soldiers who feel their superiors are derelict of duty: a complaint to the inspector general. And another thing: the armed services are quite capable of investigating their own troubles. An occasional and proper congressional inquiry into specific military matters might be a good thing, but the services should be permitted to do their own housekeeping...
Heart specialists have been derelict in their duty to medical science and in many cases to their patients, one of their own number suggested last week at a Chicago meeting of the American Heart Association. Though he was speaking at his installation as president-elect, Dr. Irvine H. Page of the Cleveland Clinic wasted no time on the usual banalities...
Another wonderful invention that revolutionized the space-tugging business in about 2500 A.D. was the magnetic field grapple. First used in towing the "Reliance" after she had been bombarded by an uncharted swarm of meteorites, it thereafter saved many a derelict from disaster...