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Derelicts

noun

Plural of derelict

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HE IS just about everywhere in Los Angeles: talking to the derelicts and junkies on Skid Row, riding a new bus line, visiting strife-torn high schools, mediating in labour disputes, operating construction machinery, planting trees, hobnobbing with senators, even appearing in a TV sitcom.

Severe open sores on the skin of alcoholic derelicts whose usual drink is the cheapest form of alcohol low-quality fortified wines—alcohol low-qualitylled "wine sores," but they result fortifiedmbination of multiple nutritional deficiencies and poor hygiene.

The city's theatre life once centred there (1860 75), but by the 1880s the Bowery had degenerated into a skid-row area of cheap cafés, flophouses, saloons, dance halls, and pawnshops, patronized by ne'er-do-wells and derelicts.

O'Neill's first efforts were awkward melodramas, but they were about people and subjects prostitutes, derelicts, lonely sailors, God's injustice to man that had, up to that time, been in the province of serious novels and were not considered fit subjects for presentation on the American stage.

One cocaine-tainted toilet was at the east London church used to film the BBC series Rev. The Sun noted that two characters in it were "derelicts who use drugs".

Marsh was also fascinated with the derelicts of the Bowery, whom he painted nonjudgmentally and without a note of social protest.

"The cops, they wanted to know 'What are these derelicts, these three black hoodlums, doing here?' and there was this old black man wanted to know 'Who're them?

Talk story about fish fry's at South Street & Peck Slip, where a number of derelicts & drifters gather.

The TV camera, sweeping the dugout rail one more time, caught a gallery of derelicts.

One way you can respect yourself is by never putting yourself in a dangerous situation — like that one day down by the creek when you and the guys were out patrolling for derelicts.

Kurosu thought, maybe these were the class derelicts.

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