Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
...chief pressures for revaluation do not come from inside West Germany, but from its European trade partners. They are worried because West Germany has lured so much investment capital away from the soft British pound and the French franc, captured many overseas customers that other European nations would like to have. Great Britain is in the forefront in demanding German revaluation. Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped $225 million in August. the biggest dip since the Suez crisis, and its deficit with the European payments union reached $178 million (compared with West Germany's fat surplus...
Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Groused Pound, who is confined to St. Elizabeths' grounds on a much-argued diagnosis of legal insanity, faces trial on 19 counts of treason (he broadcast eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo...
...went doctors' bills, cosmetics, TV repairs, outweighing light " declines in clothing and household appliances. Up above all went the cost of food-bacon by an average 6/ a pound, round steak by 4? and frying chickens by 2?, eggs by 6? a dozen-to climb above its peak (before the farm recession) in August...
...Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored in U.S. Government silos, warehouses and cold-storage vaults, which already hold more wheat than the nation consumes in a year and a pound of cheese for every man, woman, child and white rat in the country...