Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conferences" and remembered that when the U.S. Attorney's office was about to launch an investigation of police brutality in Philadelphia, he explicitly ordered Marston not to call a press conference about it. (Retorted Marston: "If he really believes what he is saying, I think he was derelict in not firing me sooner...
...back to those ten Houses by the River," he motioned. "Do not be derelict in your duties." And He sent the Baker first, for He knew that to reach those greener pastures would take a lot of bread...
...search for dramatic stories, German Freelance Reporter Günter Wallraff has masqueraded as a derelict, a mental patient, a napalm-factory worker and a Portuguese terrorist. He once chained himself to an Athens lamppost so that he could investigate justice under the Greek junta. His masquerade worked all too well: he was tortured and then imprisoned for three months. Wallraff s latest and most outrageous pose: a reporter...
...must deal with a wayward child without brooking any resistance. Protestations of innocence were no good anymore, and although physical violence did not seem likely, I thought it best not to remain in such a plainly hostile environment. The subway ride home was more than humiliating; every derelict in the "F" train looked like he was about to approach me with a papal bull of excommunication...
...sentry. Before the first day ends, he has made himself at home in the village. He moves in with Nyura Belyashova, a postal clerk, shares her bed, cleans her house and tends her garden. He also moves the plane into the garden so as not to be derelict in his duty...