Word: nickels
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...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
...quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy, lend me a nickel...
Sammy-who was smaller, but earnest beyond his years-looked up and said gravely: "I'm not going to be responsible." But eventually Sammy was swayed, and the other boy used the borrowed nickel to buy a copy of the United Nations Charter...
...imagination (like that of the world) had been caught by something he obviously did not fully understand. What a world organization might do was obviously worth all the nickels (and all the zlotys, francs, rupees and dollars) ever minted. That, however, was another question, and one frequently confused with what the United Nations was actually doing. Was it worth Sammy's nickel...
What Sammy's nickel bought was hope and fear and conflict; peace would come higher-and, unfortunately, later...