Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little man peels off his face. "I'm not a man," he says. "I'm a cat dressed up for a masquerade ball." The viewer is left to brood that although this tiny bit of cartooned lonesco may not be the funniest thing ever written, it is, pound for pound, a great deal better than Gunsmoke...
...technical level, there are many small errors, of which I will mention two of the more egregious. The Dunster and Leverett shields have been transposed, and there is no such professor as Roscoe V. Pound, in either physics or law. One might assume that when the yearbook chooses a Faculty member (Robert V. Pound) for a profile, it would get his name straight; imaginative writing is too much...
...fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been utterly inept. In fact, suggests Pushkov (and Author Beal) in a pointed reversal of cliches, it was the Russian bigwigs who saw Khrushchev "playing American roulette with Russian security" and looked on with dismay as he became...
...first subjects Macmillan brought up was that of international trade. He reminded the President that the British have long been seeking "greater liquidity"-meaning large amounts of international reserves that could be borrowed by such big trading nations as Britain to avoid periodic crises of the pound. Such an international reserve system, said Macmillan, would enable the whole Atlantic community to increase trade and to ride out slack periods. Both Macmillan and Kennedy agreed that much of the U.S.'s recent gold drainage was due to an imbalance in interest rates between the U.S. and Britain, which caused...
...from Watts into the tie-breaking goal, his fifth for the afternoon. In the second overtime period Sieglaff scored his third, assisted by Sweeney, and Watts scored alone for his second goal. Watts also assisted on eight goals that afternoon, a singular performance--the 5 ft., 8 in, 150 pound attack was always closely covered and often doubleteamed...