Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middlewight (160 Ibs.) Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest fighter, pound for pound, of his lackluster day, set his sights high. In challenging Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, one-time Welterweight (147 Ibs.) Champion Robinson was aiming to become the third man in ring history ever to hold three titles.*For ten rounds, sweltering under the ring lights at Yankee Stadium one night last week, Robinson was right on target, bombing bumbling Maxim with a brilliant series of rights & lefts, throwing his punches in bunches and dancing skillfully out of harm...
...should carillonneurs hold a convention? Campanology is a lonely profession. The performer sits in his enclosed cubicle and may pound until he pants, but he rarely hears much more than a jumble of overtones, mixed with the clatter of the levers. Moreover, there are only 79 carillons in North America (eight of them in Canada), so performers rarely have a chance to compare notes. In Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, guildmen wasted only an hour on formalities, got down to business in a hurry; for the best part of three days they took turns at keyboards in the vicinity while...
...Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns, insisted that "the only two vices I've got are good clothes and a beautiful home." Out & in & out of jail since 1940, a terrified Waxey was nabbed last August in Manhattan with a pound ($200,000 worth) of heroin. "Kill me! Let me run and then shoot me!" he sobbed, on his knees. "This is the end of the line...
...been heard. Britain's foreign policy is still a tired response, not a challenge. Despite the stimulus of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler's competent budget, government stocks have since dropped nearly 5%. Though the fall in Britain's gold reserves has been arrested, the pound is still unsteady...
Massage is tricky too, reported Chicago's Dr. Hugo R. Rony: in fact, massaging just the fat parts of the body may make those parts bigger. Surgery is dangerous. And exercise is hopeless: to take off one pound, said Dr. Ralph E. De Forest, a fat man would have to walk 36 miles, or do 2,400 pushups, or climb the Washington Monument 48 times. After losing some weight by dieting, the patient should take a little gentle exercise, such as walking or golf, and then go on to swimming. One trouble with heavy exercise: it boosts the appetite...