Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfriendly Attack. There is, inevitably, a reverse side to the coin. This vast outflow of dollars?for aid, military assistance, business investment, tourist spending?has for 14 years exceeded the money flowing into the U.S. from its foreign transactions. Result: a chronic deficit in the U.S. balance of payments. What makes the payments deficit so serious is that each deficit dollar is like a check written against the gold supply of the U.S. Treasury, which is pledged to exchange foreign-held dollars for gold upon demand. Largely as a result of its payments deficit, the U.S. has suffered a steady...
Protestant scholars agree that there is some scholarly justification for the Catholic changes, and admit that occasionally the Catholic notes are better than their own. Where the Protestant RSV says that the familiar Biblical coin the denarius was worth about 20?, the Catholic edition more meaningfully explains that it was a day's wage for a laborer in New Testament times...
...best way to describe how the baseball season opened is to coin a phrase about the way the ball bounces. There were some pretty crazy hops...
...years, including a 66,000-sq.-ft. circular supermarket that will be Europe's largest single food store. The largest store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...claim is spurious. Though Maxwell Amberley twitches and jumps to plenty of religious alarums, the genuine spiritual conflicts never quite make it onto the stage. Instead, big worldly events distract the reader from his wholly justified suspicion that the business of the soul is being carried on in false coin...