Word: wampum
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...evening wore on, the war-painted invaders organized a war dance to the throbbing of tom-toms and marched through the Yard, waving torches, chanting "ugh, ugh, ugh," and bearing signs reading "We Wampum Injun rights in Stoughton...
...Wise Wampum. Then there was barter. A car would get you an apartment and an apartment would get you a car. A butcher in Atlanta was doing well in the house construction game-meat got him nails, flooring, plumbing fixtures when other builders were shut down tight. World
Series or college football tickets, good liquor, and even soap, automobile batteries, and sugar had become the wise guy's wampum...
Almost everywhere nylon stockings, once the $10-a-pair symbol of affluence and influence, had become wampum...
Called the tribes of men together For a conference on wampum In the forest of New Hampshire, Came the prophets of the nations, Foremost in their craft and wisdom. . . . Keynes urged, "Be not slave to wampum, Throw away the truss of wampum, Start a fund for prudent lending, That all tribes of men may borrow, Each get credit from the other, Using anything for wampum, Sterling, beads or even fishbones." Morgenthau, the Chief of Wall Street, Tighter strapped the belt of wampum, "My world bank for reconstruction Must be on a wampum basis." So they reasoned as they wrestled, While...