Word: derelicts
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...live and not exist . . . willing to work, learn and give loyalty . . . possessors of keen sense of humor (at present untaxed)." Burleigh served 5½ years overseas in the British army, came home to find his house blitzed and jobs scarce. "It seemed that in this country I was considered derelict because I was over 40." He went into business for himself, then became a salesman but didn't make it, finally took the best job he could find, as security officer guarding some war office buildings. One day when the family was sitting at lunch, he burst...
...derelict group was rent by a minor civil war: eight of the men were murdered by their companions; the others were held in thrall by a dictatorial seaman named Ichiro, who threatened death to anyone trying to escape. When the U.S. Marines took over the island in 1945, the Japanese hid in the hills. Letters from home, dropped obligingly on the beach by the U.S. Navy, told them the war was over and urged them to come home, but the Japanese refused to surrender...
...Also the highly successful concocter of 17 Major-North-of-G-2 stories (The Bucharest Ballerina Murders, The Saigon Singer, Dardanelles Derelict...
...rich young Frenchman (Louis Jourdan), fed up with Western civilization, accompanies a college friend, Polynesian Jeff Chandler, to his exotic island home. The kahuna (medicine man) puts a curse on him. A white derelict (Everett Sloane), banished to an outlying island for committing aboriginal sin, warns him that the native paradise can be hell. But Jourdan goes native, wins the friendship of the chief, Chandler's father, and the hand of the chief's daughter (Debra Paget...
...that soon after, RFC foreclosed and forced Lustron into bankruptcy. At the time, he neglected to emphasize, Lustron was already $37.5 million in hock to the RFC, and had little prospect of making any money to pay it back-a fact which seemed to indicate that RFC was principally derelict in not clamping down on Lustron several millions earlier...