Word: nickell
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...course, the food really is just the same (although prices have been jacked about a nickel an item), and the staff is just the same, but one must lament that the curious compulsion to glow with chrome which has already ravaged so many of the Square's eateries has now extended itself to the one place that was always comfortably ugly, and expansively comfortable...
...competitiveness of childhood ("Every boy wants a Remco toy"). Inevitably, the most heavily used selling themes turn on three aspects of existence that particularly fascinate Americans: youth, sex and romance. Pepsi-Cola, once typed in the public mind as a sweet, cheap drink ("Twice as much for a nickel, too'',), almost certainly owes much of its upsurge of recent years to being recast as the product "for those who think young.'' Marlboro cigarettes, which had previously sold mainly to women, broadened their appeal when tattooed he-men began to puff them in the pages...
...times he pulled weeds out of the terrace of the Seal Harbor, Me., summer home at a penny a weed. He also received 25¢ a week allowance, which he was obliged to keep track of in an account book that John D. Jr. checked over weekly. (Inaccuracy brought a nickel fine, exceptional accuracy or neatness a nickel reward.) "Father's strict rule," says David, "was that we should save 10% of our money and give away...
...their faces, Humphrey told South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond that he was "confused" and California's Clair Engle that he was "mixed up." To a big company like Hanna (total assets: $450 million), he said, the smelter deal was "small potatoes"; for that matter, the nickel contracts were the "tag end of our business." He had, he said, been too busy with more important Hanna interests to pay much attention to the nickel contracts while they were being negotiated. Actually, he argued, the nickel deal was very simple, and he could not understand why it was unclear...
...read off a prepared statement denouncing the nickel contracts and Humphrey's testimony about them. He quoted Humphrey's crack to the Monitor reporter...