Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrives on the ebb of a parabolic whine. Screeching through a U-turn, the car speeds toward Ocean Boulevard. Seconds ahead of a pack that includes the cars of Mario Andretti and Austria's Niki Lauda, the Ferrari roars down the main thoroughfare past three porno theaters, two derelict hotels and assorted pawnshops. It will be a long afternoon for 36-year-old Swiss Racer Clay Regazzoni. Another hairpin right will bring him back to the sea, and the hulking stern of the Queen Mary and a dozen festively camouflaged oil derricks...
...elites found themselves assaulted from within. Not to put too fine a point on it, their children would not fight in their war. Before it was over, the ROTC building at Harvard had been converted into a day-care center. Worse, a singularly derelict day-care center. . . as if fecundity itself had been discredited and shame was everywhere. Time heals such hurts...
Such phrases ripped through the normal calm of U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.'s legal prose last week as he announced his findings in four lawsuits attacking the entire Alabama state penal system. To Johnson, the situation was so critical and responsible officials were so derelict that in the most sweeping order ever aimed at a state correctional system, he virtually took command of Alabama's prisons...
...apparent heart attack; in Palm Desert, Calif. Lee left Columbia University for an acting career, went to Hollywood in 1916 and directed several silent movies, including Doomsday, starring Gary Cooper. When the talkies killed the silents, the adaptable Lee quickly met the challenge by turning out the grim, chilling Derelict and a cloak-and-sword drama, The Count of Monte Cristo, with equal dexterity. He retired in 1945 to his San Fernando Valley ranch but came back in 1959 to produce The Big Fisherman...
Speaking to an audience of about 60 people in the Pound Building at the Law School, McLucas said the Air Force would have been "very derelict" in its duty if it had not developed invasion plans...