Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good exercise, but he asked, "What's the little white ball for?" Dwight Eisenhower, Sam Snead and about 4,000,000 other American golfers could have told him. To the casual eye, golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely...
...Britain, who must lead Western Europe into convertibility, is understandably cautious; she was once badly burned. In 1946 Britain borrowed $3.75 billion from the U.S. on the Treasury's condition that she would make sterling fully convertible a year later. This premature attempt was a disaster because the pound, officially pegged at $4.03, was far overvalued...
When the British devalued the pound to $2.80 in 1949, the first great step was taken toward convertibility...
Cambridge police called in special investigators from the F.B.I last night in an attempt to recover a stolen three-pound Magoo original...
...seven. These were J. DeW. Hubbard, W. T. Emmet, captain-elect F. A. Clark, and Guy Murchio. Allerton Cushman, B. J. Harrison, and C. MeK, Norton were on the second boat, while James deNormandie, F. E. Farnsworth, F. B. Lee, and J. A. Swords pulled on the first 150 pound crew...