Word: casino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before Tuesday was out, buyers were rushing back in to take advantage of the "bargain" rates of $680 for gold and $34 for silver, and the metals began rising all over again. Said Les Edgar, chief bullion dealer at London's Sharps, Pixley Ltd.: "It's a casino business now, and people are playing it that...
...Thursday, the casino was in such chaos that dealers found it almost impossible to do any trading. In a desperate effort to dig out from under the mountainous paper work, the Swiss Gold Pool, which comprises that nation's three largest commercial banks, voted to shut down all trading in gold both Thursday and Friday afternoons. No one seemed to have a guess whether the price in Zurich would shoot through the roof or plummet through the floor when the Swiss market reopens for full and unrestricted business this week...
...casino's recycled drinks
Henny Youngman had plenty of quips in his quiver for a bar mitzvah in Atlantic City, especially since the coming-of-age ceremony was his own. The comedian, now 73, somehow missed being confirmed 60 years ago. Rabbi Seymour Rosen was delighted to go to the gambling casino where Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines...
January 31: On the first day of the new term the History Department at Harvard University announces that the vacationing American historians will be joined by the entire corps of European specialists who will begin a cooperative research effort at the Casino at Monaco...