Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration attempt to set up a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs (which was to be headed by a Negro). Democrat Kennedy is fond of blaming Republicans for the failures of the New Frontier's programs in the current Congress. But there is another side to that coin. It has been only with Republican votes that the Ad ministration has achieved any wins at all. The most recent instance was Kennedy's proposal to give a tax credit to businesses investing in new machinery. House Republicans had voted to a man against the idea. But Dirksen thought...
Said he: "The Russian people do not fully understand the character of the Congo problem. This lack of understanding is probably due to the absence of presentation of the other side of the coin. I am saying all this with a heavy heart because diplomacy demands honeyed words. I am not a believer in honeyed words." His hosts, who are somewhat higher on honey, carefully strained U Thant's acid out of all internal news broadcasts. About all that was left was Radio Moscow's assurance that U Thant "is full of gratitude to the people...
Though the business of Africa and the Mideast is now largely conducted in a bewildering variety of new national currencies, many back-country people in both areas still prefer to make their deals in a coin that their ancestors have bartered with for nearly two centuries...
...coin was large (1⅝in. diameter), and among Arabs and Africans, who prize ample women, the profile of the Empress' thrusting decolletage was almost as ap pealing as the thaler's 23.4-gram silver content. So great was the demand for the coin that even after Maria Theresa's death the Vienna mint continued to make thalers, which, to convince untutored natives of their authenticity, were stamped 1780, the year the Empress died. Decade after decade, thalers continued to tinkle at bazaars from Istanbul to Yemen. Islamic missionaries carried the coins into Africa, where traders used...
...finance his invasion of Ethiopia, where the thaler was legal currency, Mussolini pressured Austria into allowing him to mint the coin. To counter Mussolini, the British began minting thalers without permission. When World War II broke out, both sides furiously coined thalers to bribe African and Asian tribesmen...