Word: decrepit
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...water in their dining hall yesterday, caused by a leak traced to the pipes below a second-floor room. But the resident of the room, Douglas Mason, a Kirkland tutor, said plumbers had not yet determined whether the water was coming from a leak in shower caulking, a decrepit pipe, or a clogged drainage system...
...windows revealed no sign of life within...There were not the extremes of poverty or wealth here, only the petite bourgeoisie, hiding their valuables, their woolen socks even, in chinks, behind toothless shutters, rusted gutters, decrepit walls, the plaster flaking off in scales. Yet the windows were barred and the doors were solid...
When Harold Washington was elected mayor of Chicago last spring, he boldly vowed to break the "ancient, decrepit and creaking machine" that has controlled the city for decades. In turn, the machine forces, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, declared war on Washington...
...track project, marking one of the final stages in a long-term upgrading of the University's athletic facilities that has cost more than $20 million since 1975. In that year, an athletic department study recommended more than $30 million in new facilities, and renovations for the then-decrepit Soldiers Field complex...
Quite simply, the renovation projects of last fall and this spring made life this year in the Houses different from that of any other time in their 52-year history. The unprecedented $50 million, four-year overhaul of the decrepit buildings begun last summer has made it difficult for most students to remember living, sleeping and studying without certain disruptions. For nearly half of this year scaffolds wrapped the exteriors of several river buildings and annoying construction noise became a morning trademark. Cranes and workmen were as common in House life as tutors and House committees...