Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their numbers will come...
...limping food production. Today no East German goes hungry, but his grocery supplies are at best erratic. Although formal rationing was finally abandoned in 1958, milk is in such short supply that it no longer is readily available; butter is distributed at the rate of a half-pound per person every ten days; beef is a rare luxury. To push a substitute. Ulbricht's regime in 1959 introduced "pony bars," restaurants that sell nothing but horse meat and urge customers to try "stallion steak," "foal filet," "goulash from the harness...
...Rise. Within the next 12 to 18 months, however, pressures for higher rates are likely to grow irresistible. So far, Britain's new 7% bank rate has not lured much "hot money" out of the U.S.-partly because of fear that London may yet have to devalue the pound. But any sign that U.S. money was being attracted in volume by higher European interest would almost certainly force the Fed to drive up U.S. short-term rates...
...private yet colloquial idiom that is a true echo of the century. But he can give both these masters a run for their lovely money, and he can sometimes outdistance them in the moods of love and childhood or in evocations of the classic past. He cannot match Pound in the sheer demonic influence of his imagination, or Thomas in his song, or Auden in his topicality-in fact, a comparison will often make Auden sound like the journalist and Graves like the artist. Graves could not have written The Waste Land or The Age of Anxiety, two poems...
Majestic Darkness. Most of his poems are personal-neither jeweled cenotaph nor mantic dispatches from a muse, but gifts of self. One reflects, while reading them (dropping a mental footnote to the chalkier conundrums of Pound and Eliot), how lightly the weight of their author's erudition bears down. Graves can write with warm wit, in Friday Night, of a meeting between Jove and Love...