Word: one-dollar
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Mess of Pottage. In Moorhead, Minn., Bill Hersog opened a can of soup, found inside it: 1) soup, 2) a one-dollar bill, 3) four fives...
...Enough. In Denver, a spring-fevered columnist tested an old metaphor, concluded that it takes a roll of exactly 158 one-dollar bills to choke a horse...
Rebuffed by official quarters, the gals went to their public. Posters were put up in Agassiz Hall, and petitions signed which asked permission from Radcliffe authorities for the maintenance of the crew out of student subscriptions. The plan proposed a one-dollar gift from each of a hundred-odd crew adherents, thus assuring enough money to rent a shell from Weld Boat House, and leaving only repairs and "general maintenance" up to the college exchequer...
...dirty face full of furious purpose. Nothing happened. Infuriated, he slammed one of his pistols down on the desk and cried, ''This is a stickup." A look of mild annoyance crossed the cashier's face. Cornelius stood on tiptoe, grabbed two ten-dollar and two one-dollar bills...
Riches to Rags. In San Diego, Patrolman Alvin Becker stopped a speeding motorist, refused a one-dollar bribe, handed a ticket to the enraged driver, who vented his vexation by tearing the thing into shreds, shortly found he had torn up the dollar...