Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès-France indignantly denies the accusations of those who imply that he intends to junk the Atlantic alliance. His denials are well justified, for to anyone who knows the moral strength and courage he has shown during the war years, the accusations are absurd. There should be no doubt about the sincerity of his repeated declarations in favor of the Atlantic alliance; only these declarations mean nothing. In politics intentions mean less than the consequences of our actions. Benes did not want the Sovietization of his country; the Roosevelt government did not intend to deliver a hundred million...
...think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about the studio. But Albright does no more shifting than neccessary; he lets things lie until richly coated with dust. He loves them chiefly for their melancholy aura of vanished...
Anchors Aweigh. Last fortnight, with the cargo safely ashore, Salvager Canipe and his crew pumped the remaining water out of the Babun, did some work on her machinery and prepared to refloat her. While the natives scoffed. Canipe got two enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull...
...Angeles, dozens of hot-rod clubs build their own sports cars out of junk-heap jalopies fitted with souped-up, modern engines. Some of the youngsters take surplus airplane-wing fuel tanks and turn them into 170 m.p.h. racers for speed trials on Utah's Bonneville salt flats; others build elaborate racing cars with Fiberglas bodies and 300-h.p. power plants (often with two engines hooked together) that can do up to 240 m.p.h...
...were winging out of Guatemala last week with fresh tales of the two-week revolution. The most surprising report, dutifully passed along from Mexico by the New York Times, was that the celebrated 2,000 tons of Communist arms, shipped in May from Poland to Guatemala, were worthless military junk. The shipment, so the story went, included a vast quantity of useless antitank mines, broken-down Czech machine guns and heavy, worn-out cannon...