Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huzza for Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...
...Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...hungry eyes turned on the two large bronze rhinoceros in front of the Biology labs, Mom Hall's fancy trappings, and the shiny copper doors to the swimming pool. They will be satisfied, nevertheless, with the fences around the clubs, any old pianos in the College and sundry asseried junk...
Some Japs did get across; bullets rained down on Schmid from treetops. The water jacket on the machine gun was shot into a sieve; a grenade blew the gun into junk...
...heap of miscellaneous junk from Newell Boathouse is the University's latest contribution to the scrap drive. The buildings around Cambridge are being stripped, and have already yielded tons of the metal. This latest donation should produce about 250 pounds...