Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refrained from making any snide comments. The crew-cut Eli was offering seven points. Vag hadn't yet received his clippings from home on the Harvard-Brown game. Maybe Clasby wouldn't even play against Yale tomorrow. Vag was still pondering Clasby's fate as he pulled out 400 yen. He really ought to make it an even bet just to show his contempt for all old Blues. But Vag figured he might just as well take the lad's money. After all, they had scalped him last year...
...house, wearing a sinful pink blouse and a blue skirt. She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker. One Sunday afternoon last month, her friend Anna Yoder, 18, turned up at Emma's apartment in an Amish bonnet and with a yen to cut loose, too. "I cut her hair and washed . . . and set it," said Emma. "I put makeup on her and dressed her in my clothes...
...wicker chair flanked by two bold parrots, sat one of the most talked about and least known generals in the null century Orient. His long, hard body was encased in the folds of a grey Chinese gown and he jogged on one knee his five-year-old son, Yen...
...Tokyo and Osaka stock markets, which had been climbing with heady abandon for more than a year, plummeted at news of a possible Korean truce. Speculative issues such as Nippon Heiwa Sangyo (Japan Peace Industry), which had soared to 400 yen in early February, toppled to 82. Even blue chips like Mitsuokoshi department store tumbled from 670 to 495 yen. Last week the market recovered slightly, but was still far down from its peak...
...think a man can be a fresh provocative writer in the same pattern for more than seven or eight years. And I think the public is getting tired of being told what's what by pundits and columnists like me ... I have a yen to be what I was [i.e., a reporter] before public demand perverted me into a wise...