Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep such things as crime and the menace of U.S. Communism in check. The Congressmen are flattered at being taken into Hoover's confidence, impressed by the magnitude of his job and the efficiency of the FBI. For fiscal 1948, Hoover wanted $35 million. He got every nickel of it. Thanks largely to Hoover, the entire Justice budget was trimmed a mere $3 million, down to $108 million...
...with it. His relatives wanted it. Everybody else wanted it-they wanted him to build a hospital or a swimming pool. For all he knew they wanted him to build a fly, locust and grasshopper hatchery. John M. Davis was damned if he'd give them a nickel but he couldn't figure out what to use it for, himself...
...weather-everybody talked about them, nobody did anything. But in the Vancouver Island sawmill town of Chemainus (pop. 1,753), the youngsters put their heads together. Instead of candy bars (up to 8? since the April 2 decontrol) they agreed to buy ice cream cones, which were still a nickel. Youngsters from eight to 18 picketed stores. "Don't be a sucker-don't buy eight-cent bars," their signs read. "Let the suckers pay eight cents...
...that frustrated feeling last week over a bit of news that plodded, with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...
...November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison," and started down the stairs to sell her famous nickel-plated hatchets. The students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars which she struck to the floor with indignation. When the uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theatre, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...