Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pound's Bust...
...EZRA POUND Rapallo, Italy...
Horde of Locusts. Kontum is not waiting idly. Each night the garrison's 105-mm. howitzers pound the surrounding hills, shellbursts alternating with flares dropped by patrolling C-123s, which illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...
...from a cage full of roaring animals. Once in Cleveland, three of his "kitties" broke loose, terrified the crowd for long, anxious minutes before Beatty finally maneuvered them back into cages. The tensions of such a life forced him to get a nightly ten hours of sleep, sweated a pound off him at every 18-minute performance, and earned him wildly varying sums of money. The Ringling Brothers Circus was paying him only $250 a week when in 1935 he formed the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus. At the height of his fame, a year later, he was earning...
Signs of Flexibility. The Continentals are not united in opposition, but many of their leaders want to upgrade their own currencies and downgrade the dollar and the pound. One idea for accomplishing this is to limit the amount of dollars and pounds that foreign nations could hold in their reserves. To increase the supply of reserves, the Continentals, especially France, would like to create a composite international money, which would be backed by contributions from the industrial nations. The Continentals would have this money administered not by the IMF but the Group of Ten, which they dominate...