Word: junking
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...amount of pigs and money will stop the junk trade in the States. If anything, increased law enforcement will only drive prices up, forcing the growing number of addicts to steal more money for their habits. As long as the law looks at addiction as being the evil, and not at the legal obstacles that drive the junky to insane means to get his junk, the problem will not go away...
...which there are plenty. Super Fly wants to land; tired of junk peddling, he hopes to make enough cash that he can escape from the double-cross world of crime to one where the options are more even and more open even for a black man (if he already has his money.) When Priest finds out that he can't escape at all--the Man won't let such a good seller go, and the Man happens to be also the Deputy Police Commissioner-Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that...
...Nixon. She almost cried. She thinks I'm turning into a Communist." Since she became a politician, she says, "I'm watching every news program on TV, reading the papers every day." One problem after her election, Sally notes, is that "you get a lot of junk mail. You know, like, Peabody for Vice President, and from the Sanford people, and, uh, is there a Mills running? Yes, from somebody named Mills...
Because most contemporary societies put their highest premium on profit, once a human being is surpassed in profitability, he is relegated to the junk heap. In terms of occupational potency, and the ambition to live with self-respect, old age is also a defeat...
...offbeat shopping. Inside the stadium several hundred hawkers display their merchandise along the 50-ft.-wide walkway that circles the stadium. They have each rented booth space at $5, $10 or $15 (depending on location) to sell clothes, curios, antiques and all kinds of gadgets and recyclable junk. For the nostalgia-oriented, who form a big segment of buyers, there are WPA buttons for a dollar, rolls of World War II barbed wire for $35 and 1920s radios for $5. One of the hottest items on the flea market circuit: used blue jeans...