Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became upset, and was about to reach down into the water with his big, hairy hand when by accident he spilled the bottle of milk the boy was carrying. Since he was not really a mean man, but only hairy and unattractive to goldfish, he gave the boy two coins, one to pay for the milk, another to spend. The boy immediately put the extra coin on the right color and won the goldfish, which swam eagerly into the attendant...
...reading: "Nucleic Acids and Proteins," "Differentiation in Social Amoebae," "The Proto-Castles of Sardinia." Even the department of games beginning on page 166 is strictly for mathematicians: three computer programers named Ames, Baker and Coombs set out to decide who pays for the beer, but instead of flipping a coin they apply algebraic group theory. (Baker pays...
Saying the Federal government had imposed a special tax on so-called gambling machines (those types employing multiple coin and free game devices which build up odds), the distributor asserted that his machines are purely for amusement...
Washed Up. In Los Angeles, Isabel Hernandez, 63, burned up because commuters waiting for buses dropped cigarette butts, papers and other refuse on her front lawn, boarded a bus with her garden hose, doused driver, passengers, seats and coin...
Flattered by this attention, Lucius decided it was time to really do things properly. There was a little of the Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...