Word: mint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gold. Ray was not alone in the unusual claim. A competing company, Atlantis Development Corp., had started dredging and filling operations on the same off-Florida reefs for a $250 million "Atlantis Isle of Gold." The rival investors planned to build government offices, a radio-TV station, a national mint and maybe even a gambling casino...
Emerald Isle-sure and it warms the cockles of your heart! A wallop of ice cream, a dollop of fudge sauce, a flurry of mint and cocoanut, a halo of whipped cream...
America is a charitable nation, and in its search to find something nice to say about the South, the North has cooked up the first Southern Myth, the dream of Southern Hospitality. This is a pleasant vision, made of equal parts of mint julep, placid plantations, charming belles, and singing darkies. Revelled in long enough, it can impart a kind of Mark Twain air to any town south of Minneapolis...
...spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
...world's smallest sovereign state, with diplomatic relations with 37 countries. The total territory of the order, whose full title is the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, consists of two small Roman palaces, where the knights mint their own coins and raise funds for their good works by printing stamps...