Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jauron also managed to cause a wave of cardiac arrests in the fourth quarter against the Tigers when he limped off the field with a knee injury. With quarterback Joe Massey and five other starters in varying states of disrepair, all the Yale fans needed was to lose Jauron for The Game...
This was the first hint of any change of status in the neighborhood. For the past two decades, rents in the area had been depressed far below the market value, and the buildings had been allowed to fall into disrepair, out of simple neglect. Nobody cared. All that changed last month, as negotiations for sale began to intensify...
...quarrel over possession of a beautfiul young boy, Giton. Ascyltus gets him, leaving Encolpius weeping in a building which unsympathetically collapses, driving Encolpius alone out into the world. In a scene at a Roman art gallery. Encolpius meets a poet named Eumolphus, and the two talk of the decadent disrepair of the art of their time, and look back wistfully to past classics. Having thus conveniently suspended the present in cultural malaise, the two head off to a banquet/orgy given by Trimalchio. a fat old fart whom Petronius, the author of the original Satyricon, patterned after the Emperor Nero...
...plains 21 years ago, the California Zephyr was a gleaming wonder-on-wheels. The first luxury Vista-Dome streamliner to run between Chicago and San Francisco, the stainless-steel train topped 90 m.p.h. on the straightaway, dazzling onlookers at every wayside crossing. Last week the Cal Zephyr, rattling from disrepair and more than 6,000,000 miles of wear, made its through-run for the last time. Latest victim of rising costs, declining patronage and the reluctance of railroads to promote passenger service, the train was, as one member of the Interstate Commerce Commission termed it, "a unique national asset...