Word: nickel
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...Idaho and Wyoming; they became states that same summer. Benjamin Harrison was President. It was an auspicious year for births: she arrived in the company of Agatha Christie, and Groucho Marx, and Dwight Eisenhower. Pork chops cost 10 cents a pound, bread was a nickel a loaf, milk 6 cents a quart. The next year, basketball was invented...
...prepared these packets for every Ivy opponent Harvard faces. But none is more important than the Bulldogs.“Basically, the Harvard-Yale series is fun,” he says. “There have been years when you wouldn’t have bet a nickel that we could beat them and they could beat us, and that’s what’s happened.”Last year’s 30-24 triple-overtime win, he feels, is the greatest he’s personally witnessed. Even better than the Crimson?...
...very fond of Jack Johnson. I think he came up with his own new style, and he writes really well. I really like a group called Nickel Creek. I think they're brilliant. I'm very fond of this little pop girl, Pink, because she wrote this song, Dear Mr. President. Holy s___, what a song! Whoa. The girl has real talent...
...evidence to the contrary. She remembered the respectable church ladies who were always so quick to shun those unable to meet their standards of propriety, even as they desperately concealed their own dirty little secrets; the church fathers who uttered racial epithets and chiseled their workers out of any nickel that they could...
...will never have perfect systems that can prevent every conceivable act of violence in the nation's vast network of schools. But we can reduce the chances of the next Columbine or Nickel Mines by taking some basic actions now. And if these actions help discourage some terror organization from planning an American Beslan, all the better...