Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to Wheaton's confused and hectic performance, the Crimson appeared organized and consistent. Accurate and smooth passing enabled Harvard to set up for the kill by relinquishing the ball to freshman Anna Collins, junior Ellen Schreiber or sophomore Cecilia Meagher who would pound the ball to a befuddled pack of Lions...
...third bill that King says would adversely affect the University--the "animal pound bill"--is very close to passing this session. The legislation, which would effectively deny medical researchers the use of animals in pounds, has passed both houses and needs only one more procedural vote...
Still, Lebanese officials are becoming increasingly concerned about Israel's economic intentions. Despite its fratricidal troubles, Lebanon has had a relatively healthy free-market economy. The Lebanese pound can be freely exchanged for Western currencies, inflation has been running at a relatively modest 23%, and in 1981 Lebanon had a balance of payments surplus of $1.2 billion. In contrast, the Israeli economy is controlled, the shekel is not readily convertible, and Israeli inflation is in triple digits...
Special interest partisians These are flakes who are up. They re pound that they read the papers and know every battle of the Vietnam War but are enough he admit their lust for the trend setter bunne. No, they must still atone for their occasional outbrusts of sarcasm or thier lingering interests in science fiction. Predominantly male (but includeng a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf) the special interest partisans the hope and promise of their generation...
...secret that during World War II neither side had an exclusive on betrayal and duplicity. But Findley's purpose is artistic as well as moral, and his characters talk and behave with appalling plausibility. As for Mauberley, the choice could not be more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into...