Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erotic Gadgets. Ahmad governed by means of spies, subsidies and the executioner's ax, decapitating more than a thousand enemies. He was a man of enormous appetite: he would do away with an entire roast lamb at a single sitting and then gulp down a pound of honey as a between-meals snack. He had three wives and 40 concubines, but in the last years of his life his potency declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like...
There was more to it than that. With a growing string of bakeries, Weston began buying up flour mills to supply them, then added supermarkets to sell his bakery products. Today in Britain his bakeries use every pound of flour produced by his mills, and Weston supermarkets sell 58% of his bakery goods. Because his operations provided a ready market for paper packaging, he bought up two Canadian paper companies. "All my life," he says, "I've been looking for tied accounts-the sort you don't have to sell all over again each...
Entry would also cause the internationalization of the pound sterling, Crosland continued. This would free Britain from the exclusive duty of maintaining the pound, a task which he called "the major factor inhibiting the economy in Britain since...
...University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers...
...while on a rock removal detail, Chan complained to the authorities that "corrupt cadres" were stealing the rice supposed to go to the prisoners. The government sent investigators who warned the cadres. Once the investigators were gone, Chan says, "the cadres fixed me good. They clamped forty-pound leg irons on my ankles and linked them together with a two-foot chain." After nine months of leg irons and solitary confinement, Chan's weight dropped from...