Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, the trio's greatest triumph came when Ruml deposited a coin in the other Arcade machine, the Champ, depressed the nickel slot, and pulled it out again with unaccustomed vehemence. All the little lights suddenly lit up, giving Ruml the regular five balls and a 50,000 point handicap. He won 77 free games...
Since Shelley's coin were gold in Glory's bank...
Another novelty for Eastern skidoodlers is an automatic timer. Downhill runners on the Green Mountain's Whippersnapper Trail, by dropping a coin in a box at the starting line, can find their time-registered in split seconds-in a box at the finish line...
...trouble with war drama, to put it somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though...
Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...