Word: nickels
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...HOMELAND SECURITY: "The President hasn't put one nickel ... into the effort to fix some of our tunnels and bridges and most exposed subway systems. That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there...
...said that the man told her he was looking for her next-door neighbor, and asked for two dimes and a nickel in order to make a phone call...
They used to work all day for a nickel...
Traveling at perhaps 20km a second, the giant mass of iron and nickel crosses western Australia in under a minute and dives into the atmosphere, its path traced by the hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier. Around it an envelope of ionized gas produces an incandescent fireball, brilliant as the sun, hot enough to vaporize the metal until what's left - as massive as a battleship and some 50m across - drives itself at more than 20,000 km an hour into the desert floor...
...wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against the sunburnt sky, patrols the circumference in majestic sweeping curves. Chunks of broken sandstone glow a warm pale orange; welded under and around them are balls of rust-colored shale, their surfaces pitted and folded - oxidized remnants of the meteorite. New nickel-bearing minerals were found here, one named reevesite after the crater's discoverer...