Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callaghan's real troubles, however, began last October when he confounded the experts by failing to call an election that many of them thought he could win. Inflation was 8%, the pound was strong, the unions were peaceful, and the Prime Minister was running well ahead of Margaret Thatcher in popularity polls. Nevertheless, Callaghan passed up the opportunity and seemed inclined to let his government run its full five years, or until October...
...chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...
...last two years David Rowinsky, the owner of Rowinsky's cake shop on Mt. Auburn St., has bet $25 that no one can have one of his five-pound cheesecakes and eat it in one hour...
Paradise Remanded, or Replevin Can Wait--Pound Building, Law School...
...high cost of keeping his troops happy. During the surge in world coffee prices in the mid-1970s, Uganda's exports put as much as $150 million a year into Amin's treasury. But coffee prices have since plummeted from a high of $3.18 per pound to $1.28 as of last week. In addition, increasing amounts of coffee are simply being smuggled out of the country. Official figures on Uganda's coffee income do not exist, but some analysts reckon that the country may have earned as little as $7 million in recent years...