Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to order the fashionable women of three continents into the turtleneck sweaters of the apaches, to expose their knees and suppress their curves. The New Look of the '20s was the look of Coco Chanel; from it and the sale of dresses, hats, perfumes, handbags, junk jewelry and almost anything else that fashionable women chose to buy, Coco herself became one of France's richest women...
...camp on credit and set them up in vacant lots. Here he charged 15? for a night's lodging, took in 5,000 people a year and showed a profit. But more money was needed to build more houses, and when an ex-ragpicker suggested collecting junk and selling it, Abbé Pierre promptly organized such an efficient scavenger system that they soon needed a truck...
SURPLUS military goods valued at $10 billion will soon go on the block in Operation Clean Sweep. Some $8 billion of this is considered strictly military equipment that the armed forces will either junk or dispose of to foreign countries, but $2 billion worth is civilian-type merchandise. The General Services Administration wants to offer the material to other government agencies first, then to the public. But the Defense Department, needing space for new equipment, wants to clean out its warehouses in public sales...
...amendment, then, attacks two of the Constitution's most valuable principles, its distribution of authority and its balance of power. Why are Bricker & Company so anxious to junk the wisdom of those upon whose shades they so frequently call? They are afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos...
Because of this disparity--too much money to some students, too little to others--the scholarship office three years ago decided to junk the old rule and introduced instead a more probing system which incorporates more facts and less haphazard chance into the final stipend...