Word: coined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named David Gottlieb who, in 1930, marketed the first coin operated bagatelle board with a tilted playing surface. he called it "Baffle Board," The machine sold for 17.50, and could be played for a mere penny. It caught on fast and soon Gottlieb's idea was copied by a Chicago businessman, Raymond Alone, who came out with his own version called "Bally-Hoo." His company, Bally Manufacturing Company, along with Gottlieb's are now two of the biggest names in the business...
Columbia's first bad break came when they lost the coin toss. The Lions kicked off to the Crimson and Stoeckel marched the Crimson downfield on the first of five sustained scoring drives. Junior halfbacks Alky Tsitsos and Ed Cronin ate up big chunks of yardage and Stoeckel capped the 14-play, 75-yard series with a one-yard sneak into the Columbia end zone. Kicker Bruce Tetirick added the first extra point...
...pair program started last year when a welfare agency asked Coffe to promote a fund-raising campaign to benefit the elderly and indigent. Coffe did not like the idea of a charity appeal. "It's nothing," he says, "for a person with money to drop a coin or a bill into...
...workers were essentially aiming for improved working conditions and fringe benefits. The financial side of the coin was secondary. UAW officials hailed the new contract, tentatively initiated with Chrysler on September 17, as the most far-reaching ever negotiated by the union. But although the union's rank-and-file members ratified the settlement this weekend and returned to their stations on the assembly lines Monday, not all is peaches and cream...
...sinks and the livestock barns take on deeper shadows, the crowds drift toward the midway-the merry-go-round, the octopus, the roller coaster and dozens of unnamed rides that promise squeals of terror. Bottle-and coin-toss games offer stuffed animals, drinking glasses and table lamps as prizes. Off to the side, barkers bellow the fascinations of a 500 look at the three-legged man, the two-headed baby and the incredible snake girl. And the burlesque show: "Come on in closer, folks. We're going to offer you some entertainment, spice-wise. Yessir, we have nudity...