Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sahara and Algeria would belong to us. Blacks, if they like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound, 75, who interrupted his own dreamworld sojourn in Rapallo to revisit the scene of his wartime, anti-U.S. radio broadsides...
...Bailey '62 travelled to Storrs last weekend to win the 35-pound weight throw for the second straight year in the University of Connecticut Relays. Bailey tossed the weight 58 ft., 8 in. He also took third in the IC4A meet two weeks...
Also over the weekend, Fred Pereira of the freshman wrestling team, won the 167-pound championship at West Point's invitational tournament for freshmen. Five Yardling entrants were eliminated early in the competition by eventual winners in their classes...
...lesser benefices conferred by Britain's empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
...afternoon's crucial match, varsity mainstay Red Grant came through with a 4-0 decision over Princeton's Dan Dent in the 191-pound class. A Tiger win would have tied the match and led to eventual victory, since heavyweight Duke Hurley lost 6 to 5 to Gerry Norton on a slam penalty...