Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith, who died October 24 and was buried November 5 in Potter's Field, lived in squalor for nearly 30 years in a three-story frame house near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When the house was opened Tuesday police found tons of junk and newspapers which he collected in his nightly rummaging through garbage cans...
Locking the barn after the horse had been bought, District Judge Elmer Adams gave Clark custody of his two oldest children, ordered him to give his ex-wife $50 a month for the support of the others. John Clark, who has remarried and gone back to the junk yard at $43 a week, had had about enough of officialdom. He would go to jail, he declared, rather than pay the court's assessments...
...hands of the Atomic Energy Commission. Where it came from and how it found its way to Dalhart were mysteries. But for Dalhart, the thrills were not yet over. The FBI, after poking around the town for days, found another piece of pure uranium weighing 64 Ibs. on a junk heap only three blocks from the scene of the first discovery. Estimates of the value of the 33-lb. chunk found by Don ranged from...
...hold golf clubs, such as is found in Packards of the early thirties? The rumble seat, famed in Americana, is now vanished with the cigar store Indian, and the touring car, fabled in our native lore, has folded its side curtains and drifted off into the oblivion of the junk yard, except for a few still kept running by aficianados...
...eight months, they tailed him across the country as he made his contacts, waiting patiently for him to carry some of the junk himself. One night last week, Waxey took a cab to a dark corner of Manhattan, furtively grabbed a newspaper-wrapped bundle from a man in another car. The cops and the feds swooped down, caught the terrified Waxey with a pound of heroin (worth $200,000). Waxey's accomplice pleaded: "Please, if you've got a heart don't lock Waxey up. I'll pay you anything. This'll kill him." Waxey...