Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then he came back, post haste, as the scandals grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth tearfully-and. so far. successfully-argued against a grand jury investigation...
Under the auctioneer's hammer went the best preserved collection of U.S. gold coins outside of the Treasury. Belonging to Florida Construction Tycoon Samuel W. Wolfson, 50, it brought $535,000 in two sessions at Manhattan's Americana Hotel. Rarest of the lot: an 1854s $5 half eagle, one of three extant, which fetched $16,500 from a buyer. Why was Wolfson cashing in his collection? Fingering the 1850 gold dollars (value: $150) that adorn his cuff links, he explained: "I've come within 8% of getting one of every gold coin minted in this country...
...slowed down, or arrested for a year or two, by the same radiation and drug treatment. (Sloan-Kettering medical teams have gone to Kenya and treated many patients there.) So, suggests Dr. Dalldorf, the lymphatic cancers of children, in Africa and elsewhere, may be two sides of the same coin...
...amethyst bead, a gem, and a beautiful gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (408-450 A.D.)--found hidden under a stone weight in the collonade on the opposite side of the street --hint that the "Jewellers' Row" of Sardis was nearby...
...other side of the coin is the servants' complaint that families often expect them to do too much for the money they get and the hours they put in. As they see it, the wealthy families of years past treated their household help with courtesy and respect, and frequently had more than one helper to do all the work now required of one. Many middle-class American women, whose husbands' careers have raised them a few rungs on the social ladder, can hardly wait to get someone to be a slave at home-at the lowest possible salary...