Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Gillis and Ed Nosal accounted for the only other freshman firsts. Gillis raced through the 600 in 1:13.7 for his victory. Nosal lobbed the 12-pound shot 54'6 1/2" for the winning throw...
Weightmen Ed Nosal and Doug Griswold combine to give the Crimson a formidable edge in the 35-pound weight throw and the shot...
Died. Yvor Winters, 67, poet, critic and longtime (1937-66) Stanford literature professor; of cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...
Drained by Debate. Tory backbenchers peppered the Prime Minister's speech with caustic cries of "Hear, hear!", hoots of laughter and shouts of "Resign, resign!" Distrustful financial analysts doubted that spending had been reduced enough to stiffen the pound, and Laborites were bitterly resentful of the domestic curbs. For all the pained outcries, however, only one Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt...
...charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies which make the pound look like a sick piaster...