Word: disrepair
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...that beggars line the road and try to flag down the occasional passing car. The area just to the north is more prosperous, but government troops at checkpoints along Route 7 often demand money or cigarettes from travelers for permission to continue on a road that is in such disrepair as to be all but impassible anyway. To the south, west and northwest of Phnom Penh, reminders of the never ending war are abundant. Not long ago, a handful of adventuresome American tourists at the fabled Angkor Wat ruins in the northwest were startled to see an army truck speed...
...bell tower. With its bastions of stone and 63-ft. flagpole aflutter with Old Glory, Fort Union conveyed a flashy, mercantile style and substance until smallpox twice struck the Indians and homesteaders encroached on their lands, eclipsing the trade. By 1866 the once proud post had lapsed into disrepair, and the U.S. Army dismantled it. Five years ago, a local citizens' group spearheaded reconstruction of the flagpole. Then for three summers, a squad of 45 archaeologists working for the Park Service set about excavating artifacts. Under a $4 million federal appropriation, the bourgeois house and palisade were meticulously rebuilt...
When de Sousa Mendes arrived at home, the government placed him on inactive duty, Wheeler said. He never worked steadily again. His home fell into disrepair, and he died in poverty...
...people in the U.S. whose dwelling places are deemed "substandard," a euphemism that fails to evoke adequately the living conditions in scanty rural shotgun shacks or the inhabited shells of buildings in urban areas. These quarters are commonly without heat and plumbing, and in some cases are in such disrepair that the term shelter is misapplied. But worse than the deficient housing, Fuller laments, is the world's indifference to it. "People of goodwill, especially people of faith, should find it hard to rest in peace," he admonishes...
...member commission conducted a 13-month study of an institution that was born at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt invited the White House press corps in out of the rain. The once vigorous forum, the report concludes, "is now in a serious state of disrepair...