Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batches of astrologers operate about the Grand Palace every day, telling fortunes for a deal (a deal's a nickel) each, but better-class Siamese consider them quacks. Real astrologers are learned men. members of the Astrological Society of Siam, who usually hold clerks' jobs in government offices by day and practice their profession in their homes at night, for fees up to 100 tics per fortune...
...ruble, which had previously been fixed as worth about 19?, would henceforth be worth 25?. The new "exchange rate" was purely imaginary. Nobody ever gets a chance to exchange any rubles into foreign currency; if one did, on a free market, a ruble would be worth more nearly a nickel than a quarter...
...test a machete, a Colombian campesino sticks the point into a wooden floor and bends the bladedouble. If the heavy knife springs back upright, the countryman is satisfied that it is good. If it has a bone handle and nickel-plate finish besides, the customer cannot get his money out fast enough...
...Colombian hardware dealers. It was the German Mosquito-brand machete, and its agents said that they could deliver it for $2 a dozen less than any U.S. knife. A standard Collins machete, made in Collinsville, Conn., costs $14 a dozen, and does not always offer the prized (though nonessential) nickel finish...
Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...