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Word: junks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power of search on the high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have had similar trouble with fishing trawlers for years. In cable legend, a Chinese fisherman is supposed to have once mistaken a heavy, metal-sheathed cable for gold; triumphantly, he hauled in yard after yard as his little junk slowly sank to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Visit & Search | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come le-ean on me"). One night, when he was playing the Five O'Clock Club in Miami at $300 a week, he chucked pop singing "like a thief in the night.'' Says he: "What I was singing was junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen an hour to extricate Mike's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road from Farnham | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Time limitations should be observed, O'Neil went on, but those taking exams should try to write as much as possible, keeping in mind, however, "that a grader hates to read an awful amount of junk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Grader Advises Freshmen On Succeeding in Mid-Year Exams | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other stores in Texas or Alaska, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. or in the world." If a gift is pure junk, the store said it would still pay the recipient $1, donate the gift to the Salvation Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Finish | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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