Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spinster munching sour grapes. In the land of the rising woman, where a husband used to control his yen, millions of wives are buying stock by cutting corners and snipping off a larger hunk of the family pay envelope. As a result, Japan is having its biggest investment boom in history. This year 9,000,000 shareholders will invest $5.5 billion v. $4 billion last year; investment trusts have increased 50%, and savings accounts have risen 20% to $17 billion...
Nevertheless, the yen for warmer graces dwelled in the New England bosom, plus a nostalgia for the London of old, plus a prophetic desire for the bigger and better. It demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...
...time to stew over politicians anyway? In a roughhewn society that plays as hard as it pioneers, anyone with a yen for variety can leave Vancouver in the morning, go skiing on nearby Grouse Mountain, play golf on the banks of the Fraser in the afternoon, then top off the day with a cooling dip in English...
...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...
...Taking up his new post as Nationalist China's ambassador, personable, U.S.-educated (Amherst '24) George Yen had only one request: "a more adequate convoy system" by U.S. warships escorting Nationalist supply vessels to Quemoy...