Word: junks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Junk. When Britain's Lord High Chancellor explained the statute repeal bill to the House of Lords last month, the scene was characteristically somnolent, with at least five peers asleep on their scarlet benches and a couple of others halfheartedly straining to hear the proceedings with old-fashioned black ear trumpets. But when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner...
When a 163-ton abstract metal sculpture by Pablo Picasso was unveiled in the plaza of Chicago's Civic Center two years ago, one official was outraged. Describing the work as a "rusting junk heap," Alderman John Hoellen demanded in a resolution to the city council that it be dismantled. In all seriousness, he suggested replacing it with a 50-ft. statue of that modern folk hero and living symbol of a "vibrant city": Chicago Cub Infielder Ernie Banks...
...Buck (Jon Voight) is a strutting phallus, good, he admits, for nothin' but lovin'. His muscles are like his mind, heavy and ornamental. His eyes are like attic windows, blank and blue, opening onto a pile of dusty junk. The son and grandson of prostitutes, Joe flees the loveless desolation of his Tex as home and heads for Manhattan...
...been helped to buy homes and 23 have received loans to begin or expand their own businesses. The bank has also mounted cleanup campaigns in the Negro neighborhoods of Valdosta and Albany, Ga., where thousands of blacks and whites together swept up and carted away hundreds of tons of junk. When the campaign was repeated in Savannah, some 30,000 people showed up to participate. Last week Lane introduced his plan to seven other Georgia cities, including Atlanta...
...Scholars also very greatly in their daily schedules. Each has a small office-studio at the Institute headquarters in the Radcliffe Yard, if she wants it. She can use it for storing storing junk, or she can virtually live there. No one expects her to be in. Often, several of the Scholars bring sandwiches and have lunch together at the Institute. They are get together, too, when each week a different Scholar gives a talk about what she's trying to do. About two-thirds of the Scholars usually show up at these 'colloquia," along with the Institute administrators...