Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, 'e's one o' them chinamen, like as you see scuttlin' about them odd ships in the 'arbour--pieces o'junk, if you ask me" --"A Little Knife Music," Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
Confused with alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, junk food, marijuana, overweight, generation-gap, aging, public opinion, mastery-enslavement, sadism-masochism ecclesiasticism, unwanted children, abortion, venereal disease, bitterness, fear, doubt, envy, rivalry, suspicion, humorlessness, legal marriage, desertion, divorce, infidelity, paternity actions, court suits, money scramble and a multitude of other demands it is difficult to see sex clearly. Mae West conquers all these. She shows sex can be beautiful. Henry Ratliff
...14th floor of the building. The mechanism then mixes the air to the desired temperature and distributes it to the rest of the building. This process occurs even if the outside temperature is the same as the desired inside temperature. "I'd almost say you should junk the ventilation, open the windows and use fans," Collier says...
...long ago, or full-blown scandals if they had appeared in print. Today nobody bothers to lift an eyebrow at the seamiest intimate tale, not even when it is about the life of a President. The reason is plain: tidings of intimate goings-on have become as common as junk food in the U.S. In fact, the country has developed what looks like an enduring bull market in personal secrets...
...Anne Sullivan Macy story was more than history. "I guess if I were starting life all over again and realized the pleasure I got out of writing biography," he says, "I would do some very serious work in training myself in psychiatry." Dismissing the idea that psychobiography is junk, Lash believes psychoanalyzing his subjects--something he does occasionally in Helen and Teacher--can be a very helpful tool in unravelling mysteries...