Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Destroy or Create. But as rapidly as Brody had cracked into the consciousness of America, the façade began to flake. His bank enigmatically refused to honor Brody's checks "at this time." What was Brody really worth? "I've got a hundred billion," he said. "No, that was yesterday. Maybe I'm worth a trillion today." Actually, Brody inherited only a part of the income on the $6,881,000 estate his grandfather left in 1965. Estimates of Brody's worth range from half a million dollars to as much...