Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ireland, is beset on all sides by people trying to sell him the same anecdote about a "prosaic old codger" who wonders whatever happened to old John Joyce's son Jim-the one that went to the Jesuit College at Clongowes. Perelman is able to resist this fabulous literary nugget, but he overhears a professor smugly telling his wife Chlorine that it was worth the hundred dollars he had paid for it: "It throws Joyce's youth into a wholly new perspective, crystallizing in a phrase, as it does, the denigration of his coevals...
...Venice, and over rich red wine and Chateaubriand, served silently by white-coated Cambodian waiters, diplomats and reporters trade information. No one has the whole story. In Phnom-Penh, everyone is a gatherer of bits and pieces of information. "Did you hear?" the reporter asks, and then delivers a nugget of information to the diplomat. The diplomat reciprocates. They go their separate ways to another meeting, another exchange. Out of the morass of data-often contradictory, often mere speculation-comes a growing sense of the big picture...
...with TIME.' " A flattering story, even if the admiral was in a mood to exaggerate. Yet while the magazine has certainly never claimed to know everything about anything, we do work hard to provide information for the specialist as well as the generalist, to search out the rare nugget of news as well as cover the vital events. In the current issue, for example, TIME'S readers will find that...
...certifies its financial statements for the past three years. The SEC accused Continental Connector's management of issuing two proxy statements falsely stating that an audit, which included the Dunes, had been made in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. As one result, the owners of the Golden Nugget casino have called off merger talks with Continental Connector...
Alas, Herman might as well have saved his ink, for the previous year the first nugget had been found in California, the first great rushes had been speeding through hearts and minds across the land, and Herman's malediction was even then being giggled at by the first of the fabulous western folk...