Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side of the coin is that if Nixon pushes anti-inflationary policies too long or too hard, the result could indeed be what most economists define as a recession: at least two successive three-month periods of no real growth in the total economy, a condition that is almost sure to bring about a substantial jump in unemployment. At present, the nation might find such an experience particularly troublesome. A recession could aggravate social unrest. The jobless rates among blacks normally run twice as high as those common whites; among blacks under 25 years old, they often reach five...
...speaking order at the talks was determined by the toss of a coin-an American quarter. The Soviets called tails and won the right to speak first. The U.S. became the home team and held the first session in its embassy; the second, two days later, took place in the Soviet embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor...
...Cozza said afterwards. "You've got to give Andy a beck of a lot of credit. He calls the defensive signals and keeps everyone on their toes out there: he's done a whale of a job as a linebacker and as our captain." Coe has also won the coin toss six times...
...started when Princeton won the toss of the coin. On the first drive. MacBean, Moore, and Brian MeCullough methodically ran for yard after yard before Moore, who had scored a record five touchdowns, here two years ago, ran six yards-for the first points of the day. Arnie Hother kicked the first of six conversion points...
...need," says Oldenburg, "is for something to stick in my mind. Like Henry Miller's nose. It has a strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says...