Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine as large as yours, contributions toward original, creative terminology are plainly lacking. For example: to parallel the term "McCarthyism," you could coin or use a new word to represent the strongest opposite camp, such as "Malocrats" -which could thereafter represent to your readers a group of Democrats for Malenkov or bad Democrats...
...overrunning China in 1946 and 1947, the value of the Chinese dollar plummeted overnight. In came a steady stream of cables asking, 'What do we price the magazine at today?' Originally, TIME in China cost 150 Chinese dollars (30? U.S.), but with the sharp devaluation of the coin, TIME was soon going for 30,000 dollars a copy and higher." Current price of TIME on Formosa: five Taiwan dollars...
...other side of the coin is the Admissions-Scholarship Committee for which the Faculty is informed to have complete control in making policy. Yet until Dean Bonder spoke to the Faculty in January of 1953, that group had never board a statement of Harvard's selection policy for undergraduates...
...they can do business together again." When he figures a deal is right, he will not quibble about terms. One time when Murchison was trading some life-insurance and oil properties with a partner named Toddie Lee Wynne, they were $498,000 apart on price. They flipped a coin for the difference. Wynne won. But Clint made a fat capital gain anyway...
Although one of the worst offenders against simplicity, Counsel Ray Jenkins shows the most consistent desire to save time. This zeal has led him to coin several interesting contractions that, thanks to the witnesses' equally devious minds, have so far caused no confusion. Jenkins likes to say "Did or not in happen that..." in lieu of the more unwieldy, if equally ungainly, "Did it or did it not happen that..." Extending the principle to derive other equally ugly shortcut, Jenkins frequently uses "Was or not it..." and "Will or not you say that...