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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodman, who quit Tuesday, will be sorely missed since he was the team's only 126 pound wrestler. "We're woefully weak at the lower weights." Lee said. "It is quite unlikely that we'll garner many victories in the 126-pound class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen in Season Opener at Wesleyan; Loss of 3 Lettermen Slows Wrestlers | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...avoid forfeiting against Wesleyan, Lee will move one of his 118-pounders. senior Tom Schnorr or sophomore Jay Galeski. up to the 126-pound category, both semi-finalists in last year's eastern tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen in Season Opener at Wesleyan; Loss of 3 Lettermen Slows Wrestlers | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...four wrestlers. sophomore Colin Mangrum. junior Mike Slutzker. junior Dean Sheppard or junior Bart Harvey could start in the 158-pound class. "I only wish that one of them weighed 126." Lee said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen in Season Opener at Wesleyan; Loss of 3 Lettermen Slows Wrestlers | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...Viet Cong." He recalls a young Marine who flung a Vietnamese woman to the ground and robbed her at knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down his throat until he nearly drowned. When he still would not talk, they unleashed a Doberman war dog ?and watched the dog tear the man from head to belly. Then they left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

What turned out to be one of Apollo 12's most valuable tools-the hammer-again came in handy before the deployment of ALSEP. While Bean offered encouragement ("Pound harder. Keep going, baby"), Conrad tapped on the plutonium core, which had become stuck in its protective cask. Finally loosened, the core was removed and inserted into the generator. Without the core, the generator would have been unable to provide electricity to power ALSEP's experiments and its radio gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: BULL'S-EYE FOR THE INTREPID TRAVELERS | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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