Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point. We don't believe it is radar-controlled and we don't think it will be accurate." Said the colonel: "We clobbered them at the Sinanju bridge. I hope we do the same tonight...
...first time this year Bert Haines' undefeated varsity 150-pound crew enters a race as an underdog when it travels to Princeton for the annual EARC regatta on Lake Carnegie this afternoon. Penn's defending champions are favored to win again in the seven-crew race over the Henley mile and five-sixteenth course...
...opening three minutes, Pete Hager scored, breaking out of a scrum for a touchdown. Later, towards the end of the second half, 230-pound Jeff Powers battered through the light-weight visitor's defense to make the second and final touchdown...
...cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that had to be done. He checked inflation, cut back the dollar expenditures of Britain and her dominions, devalued the pound, launched an economic life-saving program which, though it has not yet succeeded, is still basically the one by which Britain is hoping to survive...
...grocers, after a second look, decided to swim with the tide rather than fight it. One big Santa Fe supermarket (Batrite) agreed to sell meats in quantity to Maytag customers at only 8? above wholesale prices. Said Manager Charles Batts: "I'd rather make a few cents a pound and get rid of a big quantity of meat than make a lot more and have to peddle it in little pieces...