Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems that a group of men learned of a hoard of hidden gold. The cache was old Aztec gold, they insisted, 60% pure. Some of it was in the form of artifacts, the rest in gleaming gold bars. What is more, there were 100 tons of it in all. At the current rate of $120 per oz., their startling find would be worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Trouble was, private individuals are not permitted to deal in gold without a license. The gold was buried on a military reservation in New Mexico, and the men (there...
...least $25 million. He poured funds into low-cost public housing, a water works and the country's nationalized banks. Initially, Vesco was welcomed in Costa Rica as another potentially helpful American benefactor. Then came accusations that his investment money was part of a $224 million hoard that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged him with "diverting" from Investors Overseas Services, the Geneva-based mutual-fund enterprise. Later came the unpleasant news that Vesco had been indicted, together with former Attorney General John Mitchell and ex-Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans, for obstructing justice in connection with...
...their heroic luster under a rain of charges that they have fueled Japanese inflation by engaging in widespread land and commodity speculation. A government study released this month accuses the six biggest trading houses of spending more than $2.5 billion in the past 18 months to buy up and hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were laid off because of a lack of lumber demonstrated in Tokyo, brandishing...
...world in order that they may continue to grow past adolescence. Those critics who claim they find no love in Updike can't be looking very carefully; though he can playfully delineate the exaggerated irritations of the emotionally cramped, most of Updike's heros suffer from their desire to hoard the love they have--and from their resulting febrility. At least two stories, "The Day of the Dying Rabbit" and "Man and Woman in the Cold," make the re-assertion of tenuous connections between father and children seem the beautiful victory not only of love over familial gaps...
...wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before the war ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina in 1948 through the assistance of Eva Perón, who used contacts in the Vatican to get him a passport issued under the ironical Jewish name of Eliezer Goldstein. For making Bormann feel at home...