Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight o'clock on the first night my head was swelling to the size of a 24-volume home library from the sun and lack of liquid-of course there were no stores. And my fingers had started to lose feeling because my 15 pound display case was cutting off my circulation...
...princess contest at Western Connecticut State College, Joe "Tiny" Sacca, a 270-pound defensive lineman on the football team, received more votes than any of the five girls officially in the contest. The college administration refused to let him be princess, but Tiny, wearing an ankle-length pink gown, was crowned Fairy Godmother...
...pound Marinaro has carried the ball 145 times to amass 843 yards in four games, an average of 211 yards per game...
While Cornell has been losing its first three games, the 6' 21/2". 205-pound tailback has gained over half of his team's total yardage. He has rushed 562 yards, while the other five runners on the team have combined for 185 yards. Despite the fact that he has carried about 35 times each game, he is averaging 5.4 yards per attempt...
...pound satellite was launched from Cape Kennedy on August 9. Besides the Harvard telescope, it contains 6 other experiments designed to measure solar emissions such as x-rays, ultraviolet light and neutrons that are ordinarily blocked from view by the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere. When ever the satellite emerges from the earth's shadow, two of these devices, including Harvard's telescope, constantly scan different portions of the sun's disc and record the intensity of the sun's radiation in varying sections of the spectrum...