Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quit the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury.* Despite all Harold Macmillan's reassurances, so drastic a protest inevitably stirred fears that the government was, in fact, backing away from the stern fiscal policies that have halted the drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves and stabilized the pound. The pound dipped briefly, then steadied at $2.81 as Heathcoat Amory reiterated his determination to defend sterling. "Nothing whatever will take precedence," he said. At week's end the Economist was commenting reassuringly: "This has been primarily a politicians' and administrators', not an economists' quarrel...
Yale's Game Fish and Tuna Match, Yale points out, is much more than a fishing match. Although part of the success of the original 1956 match was the capturing of a 630 pound tuna by Al Wood-Prince, captain of Yale's team, the sponsors "were also gratified" by the number of local fishermen who joined the overflow audiences...
...pound crew, having rowed to the greater glory of Harvard for thirty-five years, has requested that its status be changed to that of a major sport. If time and energy spent were the only criteria, there would be no question that it deserves a major sport status...
...solid fuel is by no means a proved item. Solid-charge missiles have less thrust than liquid propellants, cannot carry as heavy a warhead per pound of fuel. Critics of solid fuel argue that it requires a canister that can withstand great pressures, that solid fuel blasts off with a jolt that is rough on the missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop...
Captain Bob Foster, wrestling for the first time this season, took the highest honors for the varsity, as he placed fourth in the 167-pound class. After scoring easy wins in his preliminary rounds, Foster ran afoul of the tournament's outstanding performers, Dave Johnson, a Pitt standout. Johnson scored a quick first period takedown, but Foster just as quickly reversed, tying the score at two-all. Johnson however escaped and later added a reversal and riding time...