Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government has usually remained silent about the cancerous corruption that afflicts South Viet Nam today: the pilferage at the docks, the smuggling at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, and the large-scale theft and export of scrap metal. But Washington has reacted with anger and alarm to recent disclosures about the widespread use of heroin by American G.I.s (see THE NATION) and to charges that Vietnamese officials, high and low, are involved in the hard-drug traffic...
...buyer of a convertible car used to type himself as a free-spending sport. Today he types himself as a nostalgic eccentric. Once a symbol of status and romance, the convertible is well on its way to joining tail fins on the scrap heap. They account for only 1.5% of 1971-model sales, down from 1.6% in the 1970 model year and a peak 6.7% in 1963. The trend is toward an even lower percentage; American Motors stopped making cars with roll-down tops in 1968, and Ford may do the same in the next model year, which begins this...
...there's more to come. A free water fountain, plenty of scrap newspaper for your illegal pet's box, phone calls, and a chance for fame, glory, and even attention if you are good enough to make the All-Ivy Sports writing Team...
...inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly assembled shelves and counters of scrap wood line the kitchen walls...
...house of another suspect, the police found a telephone number on a scrap of paper; the same number had turned up in other raids. Incredibly, 19 days passed before anyone got around to tracing the number. Sure enough, when the police finally did so, they nabbed another suspect, Bernard Lortie, who admitted his role in the Laporte kidnaping and even named his accomplices. But he neglected to reveal that the accomplices were in the house all the time he was talking, hiding behind a false wall in a closet. When the police padlocked the front door and left, the hoods...