Word: coiner
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...that show Nails and Coffins. We were afraid the rating would be low, but we never dreamed it would be that low. The whole idea of spectaculars just isn't going to go-it's the most unfortunate name ever coined." NBC President Pat Weaver, creator and coiner of TV spectaculars, blamed the failure on timing: "It's hard to get word to the public about a one-shot show, particularly before the season really gets going. The great, lethargic American masses have lots of other things on their minds." Weaver was not disturbed by the poor...
...coinmaker is one of mankind's oldest. To the coiner and his fellow craftsman, the medalist, has gone the job of commemorating history's great events and famous men. The result, when an artist like Benvenuto Cellini went to work, was often a miniature masterpiece. In Madrid last week the Spanish government staged a sweeping show of 2,000 years of coin and medal-making and, with exhibits from 42 countries, took stock of the modern medalist...
Ever since they dropped words like "Mr." from their headlines, U.S. news papers have made their own language as they went along. Their independence has been limited only by type, column widths, and their own often curious taste. Even Franklin Roosevelt, an old phrase coiner, got nowhere with his "War for Survival." The press* made it World War II, which stuck...
There is also a great deal to be said for Jimmy's experience as chief inspector of the English Mint, charged with firing his best coiner ("Samuel did a good job on the pound notes, and he was all right with the half-pound notes and shillings. But Sam, he made da pence too long...
...Washington, onetime Commercial Artist William B. Phillips of Office of Emergency Management's Information Division, with the aid of N. W. Ayer's Art Director Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...