Word: coin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bunting then addressed the subject of women's liberation. "Perhaps the cohesiveness of today's youth and its interest in stripping away the artificialities of race and sex and class are opposite sides of the same coin," she said...
Palliative. No one can reckon the moral and emotional coin that the U.S. must eventually expend for the war in Viet Nam. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, felt it necessary last week to warn against any form of "laxity" among the remaining G.I.s as the American pullout continues. Said Abrams: "It requires a herculean effort to keep alertness up." President Nixon acknowledges that heroin addiction in the military has become a serious problem; he is about to announce an ambitious federal program to combat the narcotics crisis through a new Government agency. It would confront...
...loss of the coin over the weekend," Harvard coach Loyal Park said yesterday. "To be playing at home should give the boys a lift. Yet the credit has to go to my wife for our luck in this thing. She's been praying for the team for weeks and it's finally paid...
...deliver a recorded 20-second commercial from cigarette vending machines. Called ACMRU (Audio Commercial Message Repeating Unit), the new product sits atop a cigarette machine and resembles an illuminated advertising sign the size of two shoe boxes placed end to end. When an unsuspecting smoker puts his first coin in the slot, ACMRU can launch into any one of 16 to 20 spoken messages or singing jingles from a cassette tape player concealed inside...
...right back. They seemed very content within themselves, content with their lot and sure of themselves, knowing where they are going." He also found that the much-remarked honesty in Communist China is still there. "At one point, someone came down three floors to give Fischbeck a tiny coin worth perhaps a tenth of a cent-his change from a cup of coffee." Chinese life is beset by red tape. "After a taxi ride, a driver had to give me four separate coupons and fill in a form," said Saar. "Similarly, half an hour to check out of a hotel...