Word: junking
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...Junk dealers who collect old papers gloomed as collections fell off drastically, and local paper mills began buying out of town. But at the Department of Public Works, an official crowed happily: "We're off 25% in our wastepaper collections...
...wrists and calmly throw them on customers' floors to show how shock-resistant the watches are. The toughness comes partly from bearings of Armalloy, an extremely hard alloy that U.S. Time uses in place of jewels. Says President Joakim Lehmkuhl: "A jeweled watch can be a piece of junk just as a non-jeweled watch can. With the modern metal alloys available, the role of jewels is much overemphasized...
...look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...
These objects a few decades from now may be back on the junk heap, or they may prove to have been the testing ground for a new way of seeing in an age of electronics, supersonics and atomic power. At the moment they represent a continuing effort to rework the common materials of the age. By using techniques borrowed from airplane factory and auto assembly lines, modern-day sculptors are finding new ways to express man's place, or lack of it, in a fast-changing, highly technical and anxious...
...still sleeps at his old house in Vallauris. At La Californie, Picasso has ripped out the connecting doors of the ground floor to make one huge studio. Pottery, sculptures, driftwood, rocks, paints, canvases, primitive idols, bottles and plain junk heaped here and there like the accidental deposit of a flood make the high, cool rooms seem homey to Picasso, who has much of Proteus about him. The only furniture thus far installed consists of some work tables, a few straight chairs and a rocking chair in which he reads his morning paper...