Word: coin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it took a less speedy, but more enterprising runner to discover that Gate 12 was closed and that a third of the race had passed it by. With a motion both swift and efficient, this hero swung open Gate 12, giving those behind him a "second wind," to coin a phrase...
...officers, however, are products of an affluent society, to coin a phrase, and patrol their territory in cruisers, both land and water variety. Rarely are they concerned with border skirmishes...
...triple coffin (oak, lead and cypress) and interred in the most sacred spot in Christendom-below the Bernini altar near St. Peter's supposed grave, whose discovery the Pope himself announced in 1950. Buried with the Pope was a red bag containing a sample of every Vatican coin minted during his reign, a parchment copy of the eulogy read at the final funeral Mass and the pieces of his broken Fisherman's Ring...
...Ohio's Boss Teamster William Presser, accused of using his union job to exercise a racketeer's control of the coin-vending machine business, ducked most questions by taking the Fifth Amendment. Reminded, after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...
Betlock. In San Francisco, police watched Tom Pandy for several days, noticed that he walked normally in the morning but developed a pronounced limp by afternoon, picked him up with $50 in bills and coin in his socks, hauled him in for bookmaking...