Word: derelict
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...precedent, contended that 1) committees have traditionally been granted the right to "legislative oversight" of agencies that they have recommended, and 2) it was his own Armed Services Committee that had approved the birth of the CIA in 1947. "Unless the committee of which I am chairman has been derelict in its duty," the Georgian said pointedly, "there is no justification whatever for any other committee muscling in." Though a floor vote on the issue was yet to come, it seemed hardly likely that anyone would be so bold as to charge the venerable Richard Russell with dereliction...
These techniques particularly suit plays, like The Caretaker, treating the incapacity for action. Nothing really happens in the play. An aged derelict, a beggar who preserves the fiction of being a choosier, is taken in by a young man trying to fix up an apartment building owned by his brother...
...Forest. Under the Volcano was rejected by twelve New York publishers before it finally appeared in 1947. On the surface, it tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and almost derelict British consul in a town strongly resembling Cuernavaca, where Lowry himself lived for two years. However, its subterranean reputation continued to grow until it is now taught in college courses on the modern novel...
...page report last week, Justice Dorion confirmed virtually all of Lawyer Lamontagne's charges. Favreau, said Dorion, was derelict in his duty for not looking deeper into "the possible perpetration of a criminal offense by one or several of the persons involved." If Favreau lacked facts, "he should have submitted the case to the legal advisers within his department with instructions to complete the search." Justice Dorion said nothing about Prime Minister Pearson's role...
Finally, Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening, one of the most vocal critics of Administration policy in Viet Nam, delivered a furious speech in the Senate: "Unhappily, the U.S. press has been gravely derelict in reporting what has transpired in the OAS with regard to the Dominican crisis. Commentators express doubts regarding the wisdom of expanding our mission to prevent a Communist takeover. Many reports question the extent of Communist infiltration. Yet, to my knowledge, none of the major wire services, newspapers or radio-television systems have taken the trouble to examine the findings of the OAS investigating team...