Word: junks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another six months of active duty in the Marine Reserves put 4 in. and 35 Ibs. on Seaver's frame. "People didn't even recognize me," he says. Nor did they recognize his pitching style. The extra heft had added a searing fastball to his precocious collection of "junk" pitches...
...easy to say that English is an ageless language ever renewed by fresh words and concepts. But lately it has been polluted by creeping neologisms and solecisms, many of them spawned by military jargon, television clichés and youthcult dialects. Should lexicographers rubber-stamp the linguistic junk or rear back and proclaim standards...
...merchandisers are busy, too. A bottle of brandy named for Napoleon is opened with a corkscrew bearing the head of Bonaparte. Napoleon comes in dolls, lampshades, vases, bumper stickers, two-foot-square postcards, cuff links and assorted junk. A cheese manufacturer is distributing 10 million color pictures of Grande Armée heroes. Paris hairdressers decreed the N line: a lock dangling over the forehead. For three dollars, one may acquire a replica of the Emperor's will on pseudo parchment with an imitation red seal. Says an official of the Bonapartist political party that has ruled Ajaccio...
...that meet such Medicare standards as fireproofing and staff nursing services. The current additions of 90,000 beds a year can take care of only one-third of the rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal funds. Investors have rushed to buy shares in the more than 50 chains that have gone public in the past four years. Stock prices have been commonly bid up to 50 or 100 times earnings, which is three...
...long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...