Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the latest bomb went off, without warning, shortly after 10 p.m. "Everybody just froze," bartender Rhonda Armstrong told CNN. "It sounded like a cannon in a circus." A rescue worker reported treating a woman with a nail driven into her shoulder, leaving a wound "as big as a nickel." One victim underwent surgery at a nearby hospital and was said to be in stable condition...
...official ceremonies are falsities, of course, freeze-frame displays of institutional continuity. (A nickel, please, for every TV commentator who used the phrase "orderly passage of power.") But this Inauguration Day seemed more of a pretense than usual--the disjuncture between what was going on and what was really going on starker, like one of those neo-Freudian sophomoric plays of the 1950s in which characters speak their lines, then say what they are thinking under the lines...
...countrymen had to lend him more than their ears on his trip to Los Angeles and Washington to discuss his new job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. After boarding his flight, Romer discovered he'd left his wallet in the car. "I didn't have a nickel on me," says Romer, who had to do a bit of quick-draw fund raising. His seatmate, Bruce Brannon, loaned him $45, but he figured he'd need more. "So I walked down the aisles looking for the first guy who showed a flicker of recognition, and then I said, 'Scoot...
...information's on it. He reads aloud, 'Myles, Thomas M., Harvard. Are you interested? You're in,' he says. 'Pick up your orders tomorrow morning. You're going to MacArthur's headquarters to counter-intelligence school'--and that saved my life. My life wasn't worth a nickel, not a nickel in the infantry before the invasions...
...satisfied himself that he could cut federal spending enough to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget, even though he never managed to fill in all the numbers. His national campaign chairman, Donald Rumsfeld, scoffs that it is "absolutely ridiculous" to think Dole should "have to track every nickel down," though a skeptical public seems to demand just that...