Word: junks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, lying in three spots twelve miles apart on Ohio's rolling country, the Shenandoah was junk. And 14 men were dead. And 20 lived to tell the strangest story of their lives to their children's children...
...entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
...offer aroused little enthusiasm among the other members of the Shipping Board. It was received with some favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...
...blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with his guide's trick of attempting to make a banality significant...
Have you haggled over prices with tradesmen or junk...