Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman of the Department of Economics, however, called the industry's moonshine propaganda "bunk" and said that the liquor business is flourishing...
...social pets for rich backers. "People respect you more when you make your own way," Kramer tells the youngsters. "More important, you respect yourself more." Jack demolishes the argument that there is something nobler or more socially acceptable about being an amateur. "That's a lot of bunk." He tells tennis amateurs bluntly: "When you're finished as an amateur, you're really finished. So get it while...
Shoal Waters. In Mobile. Ala., Seaman John W. Jones sued the United Fruit Co. for $75,200 damages after he wrenched his back fleeing from a snake in his bunk, slipped on a grease smear and fell off an engine-room ladder...
...their part, many psychiatrists suffer from an anti-religious bias that is part of the "general positivistic atmosphere of our time," said Dr. Stern-"the belief that science is the only fountain of truth and that revelation is bunk." Some would go so far as to say that scientific progress has made religion obsolete. Others, more moderate, blame religion and its moral codes for causing neurotic anxiety based on feelings of guilt...
...night, when everyone was asleep, I would get up from my bunk, and on a rough box I would prepare the altar and celebrate Mass. For the consecration ot the Eucharist, I used little crumbs of bread and five or six drops of wine. The most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine...