Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farmers were protesting their discontent with rising inflation, falling income and the government's refusal to make fundamental reforms. Fruit growers complain that they get only 9? for a pound of peaches that sells for 40? to 60? at the retail level. Farmers charge that the cost of a tractor less than 30 years ago was equivalent to the selling price of six hogs; now it equals 100. The purchasing power of the French peasant, it is estimated, will shrink 17% this year alone-while government policy permits massive imports of competing foreign meats, fruits and vegetables...
...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
...these positions, Felker made his mark as an innovator, but he insists that he has no plans for "intermingling" the Voice and New York and promises that differences between the two will be preserved: "They're passionate about some things, we're passionate about others. They can pound away week after week on a single issue in a way that we can't." To reports that he is considering a nationwide network of city magazines, which could use articles from both New York and the Voice, Felker admits that "it's theoretically possible. There are three...
...Doing a pound: serving a five-year sentence
...read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when the supervisor read...