Word: junked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resentment. But with both the French and German Assemblies badly split on the bill, American warnings hand opposition parties a perfect theme song: Dollar Diplomacy. And even if the unfinished pact is ratified, future amendments will be that much harder. Knowing that they will get no second chance to junk the treaty, each member nation will hammer in its own proposals and insist that they stay. Development of a European army will drag until this bickering is terminated...
...reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...
Babe Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born to Ole Didrikson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who sailed 19 times around the Horn before settling down in Port Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into...
...arrival of a new White House tenant has usually been attended by entertainment-balls, parades, Indian war dances, even a White House rummage sale. The sale was staged by Chester Arthur, who wanted to get rid of a lot of old "junk," including a pair of Lincoln's trousers and a magnificent sideboard which had been presented to the former First Lady, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (also known as "Lemonade Lucy"), by the W.C.T.U. (it fetched a high price from a prominent saloonkeeper...
...found nothing suitable in the junk-shop, but Collins' suggestion set him thinking. The trouble with radar, he decided, is a too-prosperous infancy. It grew up in wartime, when the military had unlimited money to lavish on it. Each improvement was achieved by adding complication. So. radar bypassed the "primitive" early stages of its evolution...