Word: rubbishing
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...earth's only satellite, but astronomers make no such easy assumption. One of the planets, Saturn, is surrounded by millions of small objects that form its decorative rings, and the earth may have at least a few such followers. The solar system is littered with such homeless rubbish as asteroids, meteors and comets, and some of these may have settled into permanent orbits around the steady earth...
...gone to see her. Instantaneously, England's press corps, abetted by its American peers, jumped to the conclusion that Marilyn was expecting a baby. Not so. Racing back to his bride from a brief visit to the U.S., Playwright Arthur Miller pooh-poohed the baby talk. "Absolute rubbish!" cried he. "I would know if my wife were expecting a baby. She is ill with gastritis, that's all. She often gets a tummy ache when she's making a new film...
...soldier's only surviving name is "Old Cock," and his last surviving grip on Britain's economy is a job as curator of a rubbish dump in London's bombed-out East End. Slightly addled but still marvelously eloquent after his life in the trenches, Old Cock has one friend, known only as "Arp" (from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday...
...native New Yorker myself, now residing in sunny California, I can readily attack any criticism of N.Y.'s public service departments. I have never seen a city with such a well-regulated rubbish or cleaning service. As for clean air, if New York ever had Los Angeles' smog problem, believe me, it would have been rectified long...
...brutes out of the house and overpower a third. He leaps to the phone-only to hear his wife cry out that Bogart has got the boy, who had chosen that moment for an attempt to sneak out the window and run for help. Worst of all, the rubbish man starts snooping around-and finds his own grave...