Word: hoarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coffee-booming republic's approximately $23 million worth of gold coins and large bills, a study showed, more than half was being hoarded. Since the Twenty Families hoard U.S. dollars if they hoard any currency, all those colones must be in the mattresses and buried tin cans of other Salvadoreans. "There is a middle class in El Salvador," said Tucker, "and I am prepared to prove...
There has been much argument since then over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
...dropsy (most commonly, a swelling of the feet and ankles) as a figure of speech for greed. But modern medical science has found truth as well as poetry in his lines. The cause of the malady, doctors now believe, is not water, but sodium, which prompts the body to hoard water in abnormal amounts - usually as the result of a heart or kidney ailment...