Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mint clinked out 3.4 billion new coins last year, and still finds itself so short of change that it expects to produce 5.1 billion coins annually by 1970. and 7 billion by 1975. Where does the money go? For one thing, all those vending machines and parking meters, says Mint Director Eva Betrand Adams, 54, are gobbling up nickels and dimes as fast as her plants can turn out fresh ones. "However, the real culprits may be collectors." There used to be about 2,000,000 coin collectors in the U.S., says Eva, "but today there...
...praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those woods lovely, dark and deep. For readers who like to shake a poem as children shake a piggy bank until the coin of meaning jingles out. Frost had pots of jingly messages. "Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there is that does not love a wall...
...City of New York, that orderly attic of Manhattan, is currently showing the work of 13 silversmiths of the colonial period. New York was full of wealthy merchants; as a contemporary historian pointed out in 1692: "This town is much richer than Boston. Its municipal currency consists of Spanish coin." But coin is cumbersome wealth; the merchants found it more practical to take the money to a reliable silversmith and have it melted down and fashioned into useful-and visible-objects...
Among the show's well-polished highlights are the gleaming heirlooms loaned to the museum and shown on the opposite page. The tankard has a coin imbedded in its lid and is engraved with roses representing the arms of the Roosevelt family; made by Gerrit Onckelbag, it was possibly part of the dowry of Catharina Hardenbroeck, who married Jacobus Roosevelt in 1713. The fat little teapot is the work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill...
...pleases, and have them take it. Likely enough the outcome of the Nassau meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan would have been the same with or without Cuba, but the consummate tactlessness of the U.S. offer of Polaris almost certainly would not. On the other side of the same coin, however, the President's new confidence--even bonhomie, if one may judge from his Christmas chat, has allowed him to brush away British hesitations and French hostility toward the U.N. Congo expedition. For once America has enticed African nationalist sympathy openly, and without fear of allied reproach...