Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
Outmoded? But new problems and unfinished old ones rushed in on him. The piers need modernization. The city needs a new subway line under Second Avenue; its old lines and underground stations are in ramshackle disrepair. Problems of smoke control, traffic control, street cleaning await solution...
...washing the old girl's neck, Chep Morrison was also finding her new jobs. While he was closing some doors, he helped to open a new gateway. That was the historic gateway to world trade which the city, in the mid-'20s, had apathetically let fall into disrepair. Louisianians like Investment Banker Rudolf Hecht, Soft Drink Tycoon William G. Zetzmann and Port Director E. O. Jewell had dedicated themselves to the task of making New Orleans one of the nation's greatest ports...
...attic, garage and shanty-like servants' quarters. It has bamboo-fenced grounds, which were given over to neighborhood pigs, fowl and scabby babies. It had been occupied by the Japanese for eight years, and neglected for eight years. Consequently, it was in an absolutely revolting state of disrepair: no furniture, tat ami (raised floors) everywhere, brokendown plumbing and lighting, filth, filth and more filth...
Unable to maintain the large house after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hicks later moved her family two streets north to the present Winthrop Street. The house, now a relic at the tender age of twenty-two, was allowed to fall into disrepair. A new owner was found, Foxcroft by name, who enlarged the building with an ell to the back that included a kitchen that new houses Kirkland's collection on political theory...