Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armies are machines designed by and large for human destruction, but they are also generators of huge piles of junk. Even in peacetime, military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the U.S. Department of Defense has become cumulatively-and with a sense of considerable embarrassment-far and away the nation's biggest litterbug...
...physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away the sordid sterility of casual modern sex. Wright Morris' bonfire is more modest. What goes up in flames is the treasure and junk that three or four generations of stiff-backed people have squirreled away in an empty homestead-including various machines supplied with cranks that "would all do something if cranked, but few would crank...
...into the twentieth century. Over the summer we converted to a photo-offset printing process. There are advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that our pictures come out much clearer, our layout is more flexible, and we save a lot of money. We can now print any piece of junk that strikes our fancy (see right) simply by sticking it on a layout sheet and sending it out to Lowell, where the paper is now printed...
...justified, we must first type them on machines that produce long printed tapes (such as the one above) which we then feed into a computer which produces neat columns of type (like the one you're reading), which we then paste onto the layout sheet along with the junk (see right again...
...least until "1984", the police will not prowl the dorms seeking junk. But when they get good information that someone has a sizeable load of same, expect them to act and act promptly. Robert Tonis Chief of University Police