Word: coin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rumors that the Vatican had been burgled began to circulate last May, when one of the Holy See's security officers discovered by chance a one-of-a-kind gold religious medallion in the window of a Roman coin shop. It had been missing from the Pope's apartment since 1969. The original seller was traced to his job at the telephone exchange, where he protested, none too convincingly, that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details...
...76ers, who finished with the worst record in the league, lost the coin toss for the first draft choice to the Portland Trailblazers, and to no one's surprise, Portland took the highly sought-after Bill Walton of UCLA. The Trailblazers actually have already signed the Briun kingpin to a five-year contract for more than $2 million...
...Boosel [May 6] has a great idea in a 21/2e coin-halfway between a penny and a nickel. We could call it a "pickel," which also describes our economic situation. Or a "ninny." which describes the people who are responsible...
...services should pay all the expenses and the return on investment when they purchase their tickets; and if they will not. Pan Am and TWA management should reduce operating expenses by reducing the number of flights and the number of flight attendants, and by installing automatic coin-operated food and beverage vending machines...
...catastrophe doesn't rule out heroism--in fact, even Colonel Quoc has his moments of humanity. "I'm not really so terrible," he tells an American colleague. "Sometimes when I pass a beggar I don't spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances...