Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Existence Bagel Shop. "He comes up here and pals on weekends. Makes the parties. He represents us in regions where we can't go. We're in revolt against modern society, and Brando fights our fight for us in the middle of all that Hollywood junk...
...curved the Yankees until late afternoon shadows crept over the stadium, then opened up with a still hopping fast ball, retired 17 of the last 18 batters in fashioning a two-hit 3-0 shutout. Gloated Spahn: "Somebody got the impression that I can't throw anything but junk. Well, somebody is misinformed." Shortstop Tony Kubek let in the first Milwaukee run with an error, and Outfielder Norm Siebern played three fly balls into base hits...
...wants is to put the emphasis on quality, to encourage building better homes which will attract owners of less desirable houses to buy up, thereby upgrading the nation's entire housing supply. While much of the emergency postwar housing gave sound value, a lot of it was pure junk. In 1952 a congressional committee toured the U.S., found thousands of unhappy home buyers saddled with long-term mortgages on houses with floors that heaved like the ocean in a full gale, doors that would not close, and foundations that had settled away from the baseboard...
...wanderings. When his vessel foundered in a storm off the Azores, he went to China, became chief of the security guards in the French concession at Hankow in the 19205. There he teamed up with another French adventurer, Jean Tatibouet. Together De Bisschop and Tatibouet built a Chinese junk and for two years cruised the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lived eight months among Papuan cannibals, were briefly jailed as suspected spies in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. It was only days after they put to sea again that they discovered the Japanese had punctured all their cans of food...
...think is interesting is that we prove the station has an adult appeal. A parent might be disgusted because of a station's playing Elvis Presley or Ricky Nelson. She'll say, 'Go out and play. Turn off the damn radio. Stop listening to that junk.' Now she hears that station telling that kid to go back to school. She says, 'Listen...