Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laundromats has jumped from 4.000 to 25,000. Of 2,900,000 washing machines produced by the industry last year, some 10% were made for self-service stores. The next step may well be dry-cleanomats -and a new market for hard goods. Norge has brought out a coin-operated dry cleaner that will clean eight pounds of clothes...
...what UMass coach Chuck Studley called the most important play of the game. The visitors won the coin toss and chose to defend the open end of the field with the strong wind at their backs. After three unsuccessful Crimsos attempts from scrimmage, the Redmen took charge on their 41 and in 11 plays surprised the varsity with a touchdown...
...brilliantly in the satiric masterpiece of Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. Its period is that Slough of Despond known as the Late Thirties, and nowhere else has the moral despair of that time been better described. It calls to mind the philosophical conundrum: "If a man tossing a coin to a one-eyed beggar blinds his good eye, is his action praiseworthy...
...with calls from people wanting to sell them pennies, Los Angeles coin dealers quit answering their jangling phones. In Ohio, a man offered a new 1960 Pontiac for a $50 bag of mint 1960 pennies. In Philadelphia, San Francisco and other cities, banks were experiencing a penny shortage...
...penny panic broke out when a Washington coin dealer told a reporter that new 1960 pennies with flawed date numerals were "the hottest item in the coin business," bringing up to $8 apiece. When the story hit the papers, a post office in New Orleans had to put on seven extra clerks to handle the calls. An eager Philadelphian backed a trailer up to the mint, prepared to buy pennies by the bagful and take his chances. Nobody seemed to be listening when the Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Mint announced that the pennies in question were...