Word: misere
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...trouble spot became a source of strength. Now, with its industry rebuilt and its commerce thriving, how was West Germany using its strength? To the alarm of many of its allies who had helped the Germans in their time of trouble, West Germany is acting like a penny- pinching miser among nations, more intent on adding to its riches than on taking its responsible place in the world as a major creditor nation...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...
...vast power. His frugality is a wall he has built around himself deliberately to stave off people who want to have a piece of his colossal wealth. I don't believe for a moment that he gets any enjoyment out of his money. He's just a miser-period...
...Parking Miser. A parking meter that automatically flips its flag to "Expired" as soon as a car moves out was put on sale by the Traffic Master Co., Culver City, Calif. In a twelve-day test on two San Francisco streets, the device, which is operated by a photoelectric cell buried in the parking space, increased parking revenues 39.6% since the next car could not use unexpired time. Price: around $37.50, plus $10 for installation...
...money. Gold, caskets of gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...