Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks reverberated with a thunderous blast as the iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against the wooden barricades which protected the five cameras grinding away from different angles. Farther off, 300 railroad and film people cheered. As any small boy could understand, there may be something richly satisfying in the spectacle of two monsters bashing hell out of each other...
Liberals acknowledged that such valuable commodities as scrap iron and rubber tires for Red China were aboard the Ming Sung ships. But they excused the traffic as a minor affair, defended Ming Sung's Canadian registry as a protective device for Canadian investors and taxpayers, i.e., the banks who hold Ming Sung ship mortgages. Prime Minister St. Laurent flatly refused to withdraw the ships' Canadian charter. The Liberal majority, without a single defection from the ranks, voted down, 116 to 36, the Tory proposal to cancel the registry...
From a teacher in a Southern city .-"Last year I inspected teeth, swabbed throats . . . patrolled the aisles of concerts, kept order at hot-dog roasts, solicited subscriptions for magazines, collected tin cans and scrap paper, fumbled at operating a movie camera, and was interrupted almost daily by the order to file in with my class to see a dull, poorly done film because audiovisual education is on the beam...
...Scrap-happy "A.P." early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...
...Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest to seize the Roer River dams in Germany's Rhineland...