Word: bunked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For the last four years, using the call letters W5BNK, he has held early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio...
...Unmitigated Bunk." The judge continued to rock. He summarized the case for the defendants...
...prosecution's charges were "unmitigated bunk," a vicious libel. The Communists merely advocated socialism as the only valid answer to the abuses of fascist capitalism, the only way to peace, freedom and security. It was not Communism which taught violence, but the tottering capitalist class which advocated it in order to save itself. Communism advocated force only after a socialistic government had been peacefully set up-as a method of preventing a counterrevolution...
...Unorganized were a motley bunch of free-lancers. There were graduate students pursuing material for these more ordinary tourists laden with guide-books, artists bound for Florence to paint, and bon-vivants looking for eligible game. A few forlorn newly-weds mourned their interrupted honeymoons--the 100-bunk dormitories were, needless to say, not coeducational...
...result of the lower registration, no freshman has to bunk in at the Blockhouse this fall, and the Houses can continue to deconvert. Seventy-eight dormitory beds have been set up in Claverly and Wigglesworth in case too many upperclassmen sign up, but the College doesn't expect to need them...