Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day it became clear that Healey's budget had not produced as much sunshine as Britons would like. The St. James's snow had melted all right, but the stock market plummeted, the recently resuscitated pound slipped again and the Liberals began to mutter threats of ending their pact with the Labor Party unless Healey came up with some bigger tax cuts. Reflecting the general mood of Britons, Conservative M.P. William Clark scowled: "The budget is a damp squib...
...pongmen pound their hollow white shells on homemade plywood tables in the basement of Richards Hall, a graduate dormitory where the dust is so thick that "any visitor with asthma would choke," team captain Nick Christakos said recently...
...fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature of the TCP soaring above 200° C. Dioxin was formed-a substance so lethal that one hundred-millionth of a gram in a two-pound mixture would kill half the rabbits who might...
Sink it did last week, and not so gradually. Before the agreement, the dollar had risen to 2.08 DMs; by week's end it had dropped to 2.03. It also fell against the Swiss franc, the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound...
...into effect. Many faculty members traditionally have preferred scholarship to teaching, and specialized graduate courses to basic undergraduate ones. "The real question," says Riesman, "is whether faculty members can be persuaded that they can teach these courses while keeping their peer respect." Furthermore, says Physics Professor Robert Pound, "The likelihood that these enormous courses will cause any excitement is fairly small...