Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what follows is worse. But right in the middle of Broadway's The Girl Who Came to Supper there is a scene that stops the cold show-and for at least a full minute the audience regularly whistles and bravos and claps itself silly for a 208-pound actress named Tessie O'Shea...
...this year's Harvard team is a good one, too. The Crimson has the strength to build up points in the light-weight classes where Cornell is relatively weak, and hold on in the top weights, where the Big Red is strong. Sophomore Mike King has won the 123-pound spot from undefeated Peter Keeler, and Brian Smith at 130 (1-1) has wrestled well in both his matches. Cornell's team has yet to score a victory below the 137-pound class...
...pound match may decide the meet, as Harvard's classy soph Howard Durfee (2-0 and a third place in the Coast Guard Tournament) takes on Cornell's co-captain, a boy with the unlikely name of Tom Jones...
...Governor hooked his left hand under the belt of his pants. It seems to be a characteristic gesture, but he has to suck his breath in hard to accomplish it: the former 100-pound high school basketball player occasionally seems to forget that he now carries a portly 185 pounds. What did he think of Pennsylvania Gov. William G. Scranton's chances? Scranton, he agreed, is the man to beat. "He has all the party professionals behind him, and while Nixon has grass-roots following, he can't convince the pros." Governor Brown said that Goldwater was badly hurt...
...epic he calls a "personal statement" about the futility of war. Both victor and vanquished are losers, Foreman says. Then he says it again. His film delivers not one statement but a whole barrage of them, all strung together in newsreel clips and hit-or-miss dramatic vignettes that pound, pound, pound...