Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coin money, regulate the value thereof...
Warm Feeling, Cold Action. Shrewd Entrepreneur Rickey valued the coin of fanatic loyalty, of which mob resentment was only the other side, and planned to cash it. Meanwhile, he did not blame the angry fans. He understood their emotion and sympathized with it. Between this warm feeling and the cold action he knew he had to take, Rickey came face to face with the horny dilemma. He says that during the Camilli hullabaloo he was tempted to make peace...
...closing, my nine (count 'em--nine) room mates and I would like to raise a collection of enough nickels and dimes to fill the coin box of ELIot 8361 sufficiently to persuade Western Union to send an invitation extending the hospitality of our unused broom closet (which has a semi-Murphy bed folded up in it) to Benny the Book, who probably would like to find some place that would be nice to come home...
...good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected representatives of the American people. For the U.S. Congress knows-as the American people know-that, in spite of sectional differences, in spite of politics and politicians and party lines, E Pluribus Unum is more than a coin-worn phrase...
...underlining the responsibility of creditors, Keynes is doing no more than applying to international affairs the daily practice of the salesman who prudently refuses to overload his weak or greedy customers. In treating gold not as a bag of coin to be flung on the counter every time there is a balance to be squared, but as a reserve and measuring rod, Keynes is simply applying internationally the practice of domestic banking systems as exemplified by the U.S. Federal Reserve System...