Word: minting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though there was hardly a country or a field of endeavor where Irishmen failed to make a mark or a mint, the diminishing number of their compatriots at home kept wondering fretfully if they were a vanishing race...
...Clays of Louisville are an old Kentucky family. Not rich, maybe, like the folks who play pool in the Pendennis Club and chew mint leaves on the veranda at Churchill Downs. But the Clays have been there for six generations-ever since their ancestors worked as slaves on the plantation of Cassius Marcellus Clay, who was Lincoln's Minister to Russia. They like the name, and they like Louisville, and they have a red brick house with five rooms, all of them on one floor. It's got wall-to-wall carpeting in every room and a picture...
...Mint clinked out 3.4 billion new coins last year, and still finds itself so short of change that it expects to produce 5.1 billion coins annually by 1970. and 7 billion by 1975. Where does the money go? For one thing, all those vending machines and parking meters, says Mint Director Eva Betrand Adams, 54, are gobbling up nickels and dimes as fast as her plants can turn out fresh ones. "However, the real culprits may be collectors." There used to be about 2,000,000 coin collectors in the U.S., says Eva, "but today there...
...football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans" (homemaking), "Nuts and Sluts'' (abnormal personality), "Cokes and Smokes" (religion), ''Cowboys and Indians" (history of the West), or "Mint Juleps" (history of the South...
...rare stamp is different from millions of its counterparts only because it has some technical disfigurement. To the tweezer-and-magnifying-glass set, discovery of such minor imperfections as missing watermarks or too-much-violet-in-the-carmine is like finding a Rembrandt painted under a Rousseau or a mint-condition 1908 Locomobile in a hay barn...