Word: derelicts
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...Jura Mountains when the Lowlands fell. He struck out for England in charge of the children of two English acquaintances, and on the way west he found it necessary to his conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately, a Nazi child. All of them he made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit. En route they endured...
...huge young derelict multimillionaire with a tireless hunger for "tomatoes" (women). He spent his time making bad "artistic" movies, an alcoholic stalactite of his liver, and arranging red-light expeditions at every port of call. Longstreet has a special, affectionate felicity with the dizzy-rich, and Big Boy is one of the most amiable who ever got onto paper...
...close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor's dead father, with warlice sheeting his face...
...pleasant half hour's talking with Mr. Almon Bingham Ives of the public speaking department was rewarded with a warm feeling that maybe the "Dartmouth Student" is not the derelict that he has often been pictured...
...have taken the liberty of writing you since I felt the article does tend to convey the impression that the FBI was derelict when it really had no responsibility whatsoever...