Word: pound
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...meat, and the typical family will spend at least 5% of its income to buy it. These superlatives-no nation eats or spends more-somehow do not make housewives and wage earners as happy as they should, and for good reason: the average price of a pound of choice beef, which seems to be what most Americans buy, is 810 v. 680 ten years...
Reason A is Dick McPherson, a 6-2, 215-pound monster who pitches baseballs when he's not playing center for the football team. Harvard's team has some sad memories of McPherson; he beat them 8-1 last year, yielding just three hits in the process. At season's end he owned a 5-3 record and a 2.12 earned-run average...
Also, Susan E. Milmoe, of Jordan K and White Plains, N.Y.; Hope C. Nash, of Eliot Hall and Hanover, N.H.; and Joan A. Newlon, of Wolbach Hall and Pound Ridge...
After taxes, Britain's bestselling novelist has been pocketing a few measly pence in the pound, and dash it, Ian Fleming decided it was time to take action. For a $280,000 tax-free capital gain, he sold 51% of the royalties from his James Bond thrillers to Britain's Booker Bros., a worldwide investment group. Though "all of me from the neck up" is now in Bondage to Booker, Fleming could at least afford a spot of Beluga caviar. Said the new boss, Sir Jock Campbell: "We've acquired a business with minimal management worries...
...many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long shot, Wyndham Lewis...