Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh 'em off. I knew more than they did, I betcha!" Inoculated against the vices she witnessed, Hunter never smoked or drank and saved a nickel of every dime she earned. Every week she sent her mother, whom she revered, a portion of her paycheck. Finally, her mother told her to stop; she was tired of going to the bank...
...Talk, they call William Shakespeare 'Willie the Shake'! You know why they call him 'Willie the Shake'? Because HE SHOOK EVERYBODY!! They gave this Cat five cents' worth of ink and a nickel's worth of paper, and he sat down and wrote up such a breeze, WHAMMMMM!!! Everybody got off! Period! He was a hard, tight, tough Cat. Pen in hand, he was a Mother Superior...
...proprietors used to say). An opera house, burned in 1928, was the pride of the town. An ice cream parlor and pool hall did business in the basement. Silent films with piano accompaniment were regularly featured. Young Elden popped the corn and hawked his products to customers at a nickel...
...S.M.A.P. keeps reading about fearful rates of inflation, but he still cannot get used to surrendering 75? to enter the pestilential inferno of the New York City subway (and reading headlines wondering whether impending increases can hold the fare to $1). He can remember paying a fare of a nickel. He begrudges paying 30? for those headlines too, when the Boston Post in his boyhood cost 2?. Well, the Boston Post no longer exists; perhaps he will see the day when the New York subway no longer exists either...
...agreements worth some $5.5 million in training and food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe to $42.7 million in 1982. Even with such aid, a severe drought is expected to reduce the nation's agricultural output this year by 20%, and depressed prices for such exports as chrome, nickel and copper have led bankers to predict a sharp slowing of Zimbabwe's economic growth, to 3% or less in the coming year from a robust 8% just last year...