Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the new apparatus coughs up one game easily, even the experienced professional can garner but half a dozen games per nickel...
More sinister is the Toledo jam. After each nickel the player inserts, he jams the coin plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger weakens, fails to work, and the swindler enjoys some ill-gotten games...
Sammy-who was smaller, but earnest beyond his years-looked up and said gravely: "I'm not going to be responsible." But eventually Sammy was swayed, and the other boy used the borrowed nickel to buy a copy of the United Nations Charter...
...imagination (like that of the world) had been caught by something he obviously did not fully understand. What a world organization might do was obviously worth all the nickels (and all the zlotys, francs, rupees and dollars) ever minted. That, however, was another question, and one frequently confused with what the United Nations was actually doing. Was it worth Sammy's nickel...
What Sammy's nickel bought was hope and fear and conflict; peace would come higher-and, unfortunately, later...