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Word: junking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Salvador Dali's "The Last Supper," University Professor Paul J. Tillich has been quoted by this week's Time Magazine as saying, "Simply junk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dali Painting Labeled 'Junk' by Theologian | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dizzy Broad | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...impetus for this offensive upsurge must go first to Jordan, who had the courage to junk his conservative single-wing in favor of the more deceptive T-formation--thus allowing him to utilize his experienced backs more profitably...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Powerful Offense Gives Varsity Eleven Decisive Advantage Over Penn | 11/3/1956 | See Source »

...gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cockney Quixote | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Quality Control. In Passaic, N.J., thieves lifted a dilapidated pair of shoes, an old shirt and a necktie from the apartment of Arthur Church, left a note: "How in hell can honest crooks like us make a decent living when we get stuck with junk like yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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