Sentence:  The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings.” Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition <WSD>mongo</WSD> from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. (since the 1970s or 80s)