Word: disrepair
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...northern England. Goodall said he fell in love with the East German icon - whose engine has only five moving parts - on a 1987 visit to Berlin, and it would be a "disaster" to split up the collection. But after neighbors labeled the vehicles - which are in various states of disrepair - an "eyesore," a local court ordered them to be removed or destroyed...
...late 1850s, the 5,280 sq. ft. plot was falling into disrepair...
With the funds Dunster secured, Harvard constructed its “Indian College” in 1655, where Native American and non-Native students were to be housed. Before the building fell into uninhabitable disrepair in 1693, it had housed a grand total of four Native students, only one of whom made it to graduation. The rest of the space was rented to non-Native students...
...motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike...
...motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal building requires tricky engineering...