Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turned On for Exams. Savvy students seem to have little trouble cultivating a "connection" to secure marijuana-most often in the form of a $5 "nickel box" (matchbox size)-in New York City, Harvard Square, California's Sausalito and elsewhere. Up to 40 "joints" (cigarettes) can be fashioned from a box, making marijuana cheaper per kick than alcohol...
...adherence to a chivalric code of honor. To be sure, lower class Negroes seldom speak of these standards; but when formal relations break down, they often exact irrational retribution for small offenses against these norms. Thus, two men drew knives when one accused the other of owing him a nickel. Neither backed down...
Amidst a terrible silence on a Saturday night they fought a duel without rules, until both were badly injured. Clearly the value of a nickel was not at stake, but rather honor and pride. To these men, to fight was the expected and manly solution...
Even so, the Canadians should still make themselves a nice piece of change. Last year the mint sold 1,750,000 coin sets, containing a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and silver dollar. To make it worthwhile, the Canadians charged $3 for the $1.91 value. This year they will sell 2,000,000 sets at a marked-up price of $4. Because so many buyers are Americans, it will mean a windfall in U.S. currency...
...shooter in the glove compartment of his Lincoln and is fast on the draw. A few months after Jack Kennedy's death, Johnson declared: "If anybody tried to do anything to me, the Judge would get him before anybody." Moursund also keeps a .30-caliber rifle with a nickel-plated barrel clipped under the front seat of his car. Explains he: "When you have to shoot a rattlesnake, pistols aren't worth a damn...