Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-marketeer, he gets 5,000 francs instead of the agreed 450 for doing the job. As they move across town he tries to sell the meat piecemeal, picks fights in bistros, knocks a gendarme out cold and pockets his whistle. Irked by his incautious partner, Martin tries to pound some sense into Grandgil only to be tossed around like an Apache dancer. Thoroughly cowed, Martin agrees to rest for a few minutes in Grandgil's flat...
Under sharp prodding by the Alabama Tuberculosis Association, with eloquent backing from the press, tax-conscious Governor Gordon Persons and the legislature saw that Alabama's penny-wise policy was pound-foolish. The best they could do was to promise to try to find $500,000-somewhere. But every dollar that Alabama "saved" by not spending it this year would mean tens of dollars to be spent in future years on neglected cases, and many a life would be lost. From more than one county came reports of women awaiting admission to a sanatorium and, to support themselves, minding...
...grimly started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine, and take Physic occasionally. By these means my Ribs display Skin of no great Thickness & my Clothes have been taken in nearly half a yard...
...their Communist paradise (to encourage customers, Kressmann accepted East zone marks at par, instead of at the usual price of five East marks to one West mark). Anyone who could produce an East German identity card had his choice of five oranges (at 1? a piece) or two pounds of cherries (3? a pound). Said an old woman counting her oranges: "Unbelievable! I haven't had an orange in years...
Nowadays, she still has to revive herself after every performance with salt tablets, vitamins and warm water, still loses a pound or so every performance. But Belter Bryant thinks she has found herself, is solidly booked in the gaudiest U.S. spots, and has a European tour in the making...