Word: ib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, shrimp prices in the U.S. rose 20% to 40% during 1971. Large shrimp that retailed in Manhattan a year ago for $2.50 per Ib. are now $3.25. Jim Mahoney, general manager of Miami's Gorton Shrimp Products, predicts that shrimp may become one of the U.S.'s costliest delicacies. "Shrimp people laughed when lobster went to $4 a pound," he says, "but for shrimp that's not too farfetched...
...that she would enter at least four primaries in quest of the Democratic nomination. She began her campaign on a characteristically scrappy note: "Other kinds of people can steer the ship of state besides white men. Regardless of the outcome, they will have to remember that a little 100-Ib. woman shook things...
Hevern, a 6-ft., 200-Ib. senior, came to Harvard for St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he made the Daily News All star team...
...said he also was "astonished" to discover that "measurable alcohol" had been a contributing factor in up to 60% of auto deaths involving youths between 16 and 24. That means at least one-tenth of 1% alcoholic content in the driver's blood-the equivalent for a 160-Ib. male of five shots of 100-proof whisky guzzled on an empty stomach within an hour...
...this thing breaks," muttered Jackie Gleason, gingerly hoisting his 225-Ib. bulk up a ladder, "the whole joint closes." On the rooftop of his "weird castle," Gleason clinked a teacup against beer cans held by construction workers and admired the traditional "topping-out" tree, signifying that exterior construction had been completed on his dream house near Fort Lauderdale. "We'll never get in before Christmas," he sighed. It will be worth the wait. Sprawling over five levels, Gleason's house has 14 rooms, "at least" five bars, and a price tag of $500,000. There are only...