Word: coin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit to the Lowell House basement yesterday, two representatives from Maytag Inc. agreed to install seven new coin operated washing machines and four double-decker dryers in the house at no cost to the University...
...would have been surprised to learn that a few years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
Harvard made this discovery first by the luck of the coin flip. Cornell put constant pressure on Crimson netminder Fred Herold early, resulting in a weather-aided goal at seven minutes. John Landis netted the slippery ball when Herold was unable to hold his initial shot...
Lawyers for the defendants in the $5 million Fogg Museum coin robbery trial will appeal before the state Supreme Court today their allegation that the key prosecution witness in the 1973 robbery was beaten and coerced into testifying...
...Coin flip: tails. Very well, this neurasthenic little novel is a wicked parody. It mocks the genre of relentless felicity and refined sensibility, the kind of writing in which nothing happens but much is felt. "Her heart pressed up weakly against her ribs," the reader learns of Clara, a young working woman of the kind once called "spinster." Or "Clara felt slightly breathless as though the feebleness of the light was a sign of an ever-diminishing supply of oxygen." And (Clara, in perfect health, leaving a hotel) "Clara's ankles felt weak. There seemed no way she would...