Word: derelictions
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...country scene or a moment of action. In The First Thorn the author catches a whole life in a few pages. The impulsive daughter of a rich landowner revels in the secure and happy rituals of her twelfth birthday until, touched by sudden pity, she offers charity to derelict ex-convicts. Seared by the disapproval of her family and friends, she briefly weeps, in the half-grown-up awareness that compassion will always isolate her from the complacent society she belongs to. Then she turns back to the child-worldly delight of a new ruffled birthday dress...
...being urged on all sides to make a move that he had quietly decided upon while others were still debating it. Said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "If the President had not made this decision, even though he made it with a heavy heart, he would have been derelict in his duty to the country and the free world...
...undergraduate leaders are extremely important to the clubs, whose original gang structure often represents the only possible security for children whose parents and neighborhoods are derelict. Molly Taylor '62, president of PBH, described the violence with which a club reacted when the settlement house had to delay in assigning it a leader...
...69th annual meeting convened in Syracuse last week, Cordiner got right down to it, and with no apology in his voice. "It has been said by some." he said, "that I, as chairman and chief executive officer, either knew of these violations and condoned them or that I was derelict in not knowing of them." Neither is true, said Cordiner. "We were diligent in the light of the facts as we then knew them...
...windowless schools. It helps air conditioning, and the children approve. But last week Artesia* announced an even more singular design. Except for the flagpole, Abo Elementary school will be entirely underground-apparently the first such nuclear-age school in the U.S. Says Architect Frank Standhardt: "I consider my profession derelict on civil defense. We've had ten years of grace and done nothing about...