Word: mint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soggy saga goes on and on. The TWA dessert that tastes like "mint-colored shaving cream." The "glorified hot water" that passes for coffee on Pan Am. The menus on National, which are rendered in French (even for breakfast), though "no Frenchman would give house-room" to the meal that follows. The canned fruit, the cannonball rolls, the senile salads. Some of the British inspectors' bitterest barbs are aimed at British Airways; pace Robert Morley, its "farcically pretentious Elizabethan menu heralded one of the worst air meals ever eaten." A British Airways official, who might have been speaking...
Lest the new buck go the way of the Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill, both of which had disadvantages and have just about disappeared from active circulation, the Mint is spending $600,000 on what amounts to an affirmative-action campaign to help the numismatic Ms. Anthony get ahead...
Among other things, a 20-page press kit being distributed by the Mint urges bankers to "consider naming your new branch the Susan B. Anthony branch" and sponsoring poetry contests in her name. Retailers are encouraged to "schedule a Susan B. Anthony sale week," and citizens' groups, are exhorted to throw bingo or "Susan"parties using the coins as prizes. Diagrams show merchants how to reorganize their cash drawers to accommodate the coin...
Answer: Not much, except that they have all just won an election. Soon they will all be commuting to Strasbourg as mint-new members in the Parliament of the European Community, the world's first democratically elected international body...
...mile course of the Belmont Stakes. In 1958 Tim Tarn was leading the field with one-eighth mile to run when he broke his leg. In the 1953 Kentucky Derby, Native Dancer was bumped and then forced to go so far outside that he could have stopped for a mint julep in the clubhouse. He won the Preakness and the Belmont, but his Triple Crown was lost. Nashua, Needles, Damascus, Riva Ridge?the list of excellent colts that were upset is sad and long. In some years, the fields were so strong that the horses killed one another...