Word: wampum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staunch standby of Americans who find themselves out of modern, magnetically coded personal checks, credit cards or even old-fashioned cash. But in an age when 44 million checks are cashed and processed daily by speedy check-reading machines, the uncoded universal kind is about as handy as wampum-and the Federal Reserve System would like to see it go the same...
...sites are carefully zoned and restricted to prevent what Darlington refers to as "creeping urbanization." Creeping cuteness has already engulfed the development, which boasts such street names as Languid Lane and Nonchalant Road. Ho Hum Drive separates into Ho Street and Hum Street. The bank is on Wampum Way. The main drag, naturally, is Easy Street...
...Indians should expect a real run for their wampum as they do battle with the Crimson ruggers this morning. The first phalanx faces off at 11:30 a.m. on the Rugby Field behind the tennis courts as Soldiers Field...
...thing less about the horse than the sad English lady, who knew only two,* will concede that Author Don Russell, an encyclopedist by profession, has contrived a creditable and perhaps definitive biography from a mass of flapdoodle and dime-novel apocrypha. The fact that the prose is pure wampum should not bother anyone...
...sequined waifs showed up in Philadelphia's Orphans' Court. Singer Frankie Avalon, 19, said his guardian needed approval to spend $12,373 from the kid's estate for assorted expenses. The inimitable Fabian, 16, needed $38,392. It costs a lot of wampum to be Fabian, his guardian explained. He can't go to school (girls scream and wail as he walks down the corridors), so he has to pay two private tutors $10 an hour. Moreover, the Fab is taking singing lessons that are worth like 60 years of analyst's fees...