Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
...looks like a giant's toy box. Here, three weeks hence, Japan's Expo '70 will begin a six-month run. It is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia, but amid its architectural anarchy the occasional pagoda or the batwing sail of a Chinese junk seems oddly out of place?and time. From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape of spires and saucers, globes and polyhedrons, sweeping carapaces and shimmering towers of aluminum, glass and steel...
...America's eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junk automobiles," continued the President. He noted that it is now cheaper to abandon old cars in city streets and fields than to take them to wreckers. A possible solution, Nixon said, would be to include the cost of disposing of a car in its purchase price -which would entail yet another increase in the cost...
...feud began in the fall of 1968, when Fasi, a onetime junk dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat...
Male chauvinism, however, is not central to us. We can junk it much cashier than straight men can. For we understand oppression. We have largely opted out of a system which oppresses women daily-our egos are not built on putting women down and having them build us up. Also, living in a mostly male world we have become used to playing different roles, doing our own shitwork. And finally, we have a common enemy: the big male chauvinists are also the big antigays...