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...banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist, man's head, baby's head...
...associate, Allan Kirby. the 5-&-100 store heir. It took five more years of court fights before he was solidly in control. For his trouble, Bob Young got control of $2 billion worth of assets, including the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and Missouri Pacific. But in the intense strain of the battle, he also suffered a nervous breakdown. His sandy hair had turned white, and at 45 he looked 15 years older...
...Seattle, Mrs. Dorys Alkire was fined $1 for a parking violation, despite her argument that she had not broken the law by parking her small sports car in a space partly occupied by another sports car because the owner of the first auto had already put the necessary nickel in the meter...
...most colorful institutions. On Hester and Thompson Streets, Belmont Avenue and Prospect Place the cries of hawkers competed with the horns of frustrated motorists, tomatoes and fishtails decorated the curbs, and the hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin jets of steam into the frenzied...
...calls for holding taxes where they are now, for tilting up temporarily the 275-billion-dollar lid on the national debt, for a nickel stamp on letters, and for 83,000 fewer men in military uniform...