Word: coine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flip Coin...
This week the Country's 15,000 banks were not only open, they were booming. Through their doors by day, and often by night, customers thronged to deposit and draw on their big wartime earnings. Money, which was skin-tight in 1933, was now plentiful. Circulation of coin and notes was at an alltime high of $15.9 billions, or more than double the levels of 1933. Demand deposits of Federal Reserve member banks stood at the end of 1942 at a record $43 billions, as against $13 billions ten years...
...tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer...
...done for years, he visited the tombs of Keats and Shelley, admired the stairs leading from the Piazza di Spagna, shuddered at the architectural bad taste of the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, roamed happily through the Coliseum and the ancient ruins in the Roman Forum. At last having tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain (which all tourists do to make sure that they will return to Rome), Penny pedaled off across town to Vatican City...
...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...