Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sabotage began almost immediately. Coin box slots were stuffed with chewing gum or wax. Cables were cut or damaged with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and axes; a row of 22 telephone poles was neatly cut down with a power saw. Fortnight ago in St. Petersburg, a dynamite charge under a bridge ripped apart an 1800-wire cable, and last week 9,000 families in Lakeland lost phone service when seven cables were cut. Though supervisory people man telephone equipment and make repairs, sabotage often cuts off service to one area before it can be restored in another. Among the cut lines...
...After all, the major issue in the operation of our Federal Government is fiscal sanity versus Harvard economics. Because of this, the Republican Party should lean to the conservative side and dare to be different. A choice between Jack and Rocky, come Election Day, would be like flipping a coin with two heads...
...High Society's drunk scene. "You must be one of the newer fellas," riposted Bing Crosby, 59. That was in 1956. Since then the newer fella has formed his own record company and that kind of croonin' now sounds with the ring of new-minted coin. So in his first long-term record contract since Decca days seven years ago, Bing will do a five-year hitch on Frankie's Reprise label. Beamed Sinatra after a recording session: "With Crosby, we've got it made...
Jazz fits in amidst virtually any surroundings because it is a primarily personal rather than primarily formal kind of music. There is another side to the coin: since jazz is based upon improvisation and the inspiration of the moment, the environment in which the musicians play is bound to affect their music. The hospital-room atmosphere of a recording studio can help keep a musician's high spirits in check, just as a Monday-night jam session at Birdland can bring them...
...Coin of Carthage, by Bryher. The Punic Wars, seen not so much on the battlefronts as in the backwaters of living and in the private hopes and problems of small people...