Word: coins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awarded honorary doctoral degrees -- his 53rd, in acknowledgment of which he dropped a chestnut: "Now that I am a doctor, at least I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." At Vassar, Playwright John Guare and his spouse Designer Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds of condoms encased in envelopes that bore the Latin message ad venerem securiorem. Translation: "for safe...
...like a coin of Peter the Great...
...that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...
Some 78% said their reason for "leaking" was to counter false or misleading information. Linsky, who interviewed almost 500 White House officials and members of Congress from the Johnson through the Reagan Administrations, concludes, "Leaks are the coin of the realm, the way of life in Washington...
...minting and sale were authorized by Congress last year after the President issued an Executive Order banning the importation of Krugerrands from South Africa. That left the Canadian Maple Leaf as the major bullion coin available in the U.S. The public's appetite for such coins is already large, and a little-known fact will even enhance it: the new tax bill signed into law last week allows people to put gold coins in their IRA accounts, which surely will be used as an added selling point by dealers...