Word: derelicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council would be grossly derelict if it ignored for the next month much of the important work before it," the Council president said. "In order not to do so, the Council must be brought to full strength as soon as possible...
Meanwhile the derelict Farmer was legitimate quarry for salvagers. An 8,258-ton vessel owned by the United States Lines, she was loaded with buckwheat and other food for hungry Britain. Ship and cargo together were worth $4,500,000. A sister ship, the American Ranger, and a U.S. destroyer hastened to her side. But a dinky British steamer out of Cardiff, the Elizabete, got there first...
...already been adjudged (by the 1942 Roberts report) as derelict in their duties: Lieut. General Walter C. Short, Commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department, and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet on the day the Japs attacked. New light shed by the reports did nothing to brighten their records; it cast them, indeed, into darker shadow. What the new light did was to illuminate other failures. Among them...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...cadaver scarcity was growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range decline in pauperism and the wider spread of Social Security payments (which include funeral expenses) have cut this source of supply. Said Dr. Curl last week: "Another four years and we may not have any cadavers for medical teaching...