Word: junking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas J. McLernon said last week at a preview for public officials and business leaders that an entire 92-car flee of new trains will be in operation by July. The new trains replace 114 old coaches, some of them over 50 years old, which will be sold as junk...
Except for this inning and the eighth, when Harvard got two men on base with two out, Farber completely handcuffed the Crimson. Relying solely on his "junk," the sophomore didn't throw a fast ball in the last six innings...
...cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes...
Last spring, after venomous and frenzied preliminaries unusual even for Cambridge, the City rejected, five to four, $5,500,000 of federal assistance to renew Donnelly Field in East Cambridge. Chief features of the 114 acre area are three auto junk yards and an abandoned school...
...visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...