Word: dereliction
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...Herculean task of portraying Maugham's derelict hero, in his progressive states of degeneracy falls to Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest...
Until this year, the school was composed, or reputed to be composed, mainly of "derelict prep school boys, old-maid school teachers and horn-rimmed grad students." But after December 7, most Harvard undergraduates decided to give up tennis flannels or camp counselling for studies, and the girls came along...
...Japanese should have known better. In their haste they left behind them the supposedly derelict Chinese army commanded by Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell; in their confidence they hurried into Yünnan only 5,000 strong. At week's end "Uncle Joe's" men came to life and, with a fury that harked back to the Chinese furies at Changsha and Taierchwang, rolled up the Japanese rear. In Yunnan a trap snapped on the Japanese...
...propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival. Under her own steam the $1,000,000 Jonah limped into New York, berthed in Edgewater. "Miraculous," said the crew...
...remembered (the image would have enchanted Melville) a wounded pilot who lay on the wing of his derelict ship, high in the air, in an infinite leisure between living and death. He realized how little of adventure there is in war, that war is the acceptance neither of duty nor of danger: "it is at certain moments the pure and simple acceptance of death." In some marvelously clear and compassionate writing on refugees, and on heartsick soldiers who threw in their cards, and on the cracked and frantic machineries of civil and military administration, he manages to tell more...