Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all sides came suggestions that the armed services should be "restrained" first, and much optimism about more punch for the pound (like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...
...delegation made fusion seem even more tantalizing by releasing for the first time cost figures for fuel, for fusion and for fission. One pound of heavy hydrogen costs only $140; one pound of pure uranium 235, used as reactor fuel, costs a whopping $11,000. Most important, a fusion reactor's fuel supply is as inexhaustible as the oceans-in every gallon of water there is one part deuterium (heavy hydrogen) to 5,000 parts of light hydrogen, easily separated by electrolysis...
...farmlands of Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas last week. Their repeated verdict on U.S. marvels: "It is interesting, but we have something like it in Russia." Matskevich neatly demonstrated, however, that he could gather in a few U.S. idioms. "They ought to sell this air by the pound in New York," he remarked brightly to the farmers of Nebraska. And in Texas he added: "Texans don't brag nearly as much as they could...
...share of critical brickbats. When Britain's Reg Butler won a $12,670 prize for his Unknown Political Prisoner, a welded, cagelike construction that looked like a cross between a gibbet and a prison guard's lookout tower, an outraged refugee artist seized the first opportunity to pound it into scrap (TIME, March...
...McRae was referred to the city dog catcher, was unable to reach him, indignantly called the mayor, was amazed to see Mayor Earl J. Glade arrive in his Cadillac, step out, gingerly lift the animal into his trunk compartment and drive off in the direction of the dog pound...