Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, the police tried to find Langley. At first they thought he was probably hiding in the house. The building was packed almost solid from top to bottom with incredible masses of junk, pierced by winding tunnels. As they cleared passageways the police found five pianos, a library containing thousands of books on law and engineering, ancient toys, old bicycles with rotting tires, obscene photographs, dressmaker's dummies, heaps of coal, and ton after ton of newspapers-the fruit of three decades of hoarding...
Going It Alone. Up to now, despite utter failure of negotiations a year ago, the U.S. had clung to the hope that Russia would carry out its moral obligation to junk the steel wall across Korea and set up an overall provisional government under a five-year trusteeship. But now, said Hilldring, "we are forced to go it alone. . . . We must take independent action in our zone pending unification...
Riley enlisted men's club. "The hostess tries her best," he explained, "but it's a pretty dull place." Aside from the movies, a couple of 3.2 beer parlors and a bowling alley, "Junk Town" isn't much better. The Army life is still a lonely life and the corner of Sixth and Washington at 10 p.m. is still a pretty lonely corner, as lonely as thousands of corners known by thousands of U.S. soldiers...
Fort Riley soldiers soon learn that it does no good to whistle at Junk Town girls-they can't be had. Monson and his friends have noticed the return of the old civilian belief that soldiers are bums who haven't got the brains to be anything else. No one seems to remember that they were drafted. Nice girls, who once thought it smart and patriotic to be seen with soldiers (preferably an officer), now just say: "On your way, dogface...
...statues are junk...