Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food to feed the nation is almost certainly being produced; two age old social constraints, however, prevent it from getting into hungry mouths. The first is the income distribution. Rich people always use more food than they have to, especially in places where fat is a status symbol. Every pound of meat an American peace corpsman or Bengali professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence, towards death. With an equal income distribution, Bangladesh's food needs could be thirty per cent less than they are today...
...vicious right hook in the thirteenth round knocked Smokin' Joe's mouthguard out of his face, and a follow-up left-right-left series left Frazier's face badly bleeding. Ali continued to pound away at Frazier's face in the next round, and the referee was finally forced to award Ali the victory. A dazed Frazier did not object to the ruling...
...hunt for Patty Hearst, Bates, who earns $36,000 a year, customarily rose at 5:30 a.m. each day. For lack of time, he gave up hunting and cut back on weekend golf. Says his wife: "The Hearst case has just consumed our life. This removes a 50-pound weight." Now Bates can return to his normal routine, unless he decides to take one of several job offers in private business. But he may well stay on in the FBI. Explains Bates, who habitually wears on a gold chain four service pins for 10, 20,25 and 30 years with...
...Israelis make a fairly strong case for their need for these advanced weapons. In pulling back from their present positions in the Sinai, Israel's military men-drawing on lessons learned in the October war-are revising their tactics to get more punch for the Israeli pound from a smaller army using more advanced technology. Even as Israeli forces in the Sinai began their preparations for a pullback last week, Chief of Staff General Mordechai Gur talked about the new positions they will take up. At a briefing at Bir Gifgafa in the Sinai, attended by TIME Correspondent Donald...
...today's standards of taste, John was certainly a minor artist. He sinned by missing the historical bus. The peculiar complexities, doubts and unfamiliarities of living in the 20th century had radically altered the historical sense of a whole generation of artists. Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman...