Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cheesemakers are always trying to find something profitable to make from whey, the liquid part of milk left behind in producing cheeses. For every pound of cheese there are 9 lbs. of whey, or nearly 40 billion lbs. in America each year. Half has industrial uses, but half goes to waste. Environmental laws forbid dumping it in rivers. So some major cheesemakers maintain vast, costly, smelly lagoons of decomposing whey...
...pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie is a mindless, though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless...
...just spent $10 billion, finished a week-long countdown, flooded a million gallons of fuel into a hundred-thousand-pound bird, and launched the whole contraption into orbit," a beer-drinking cameraman bellowed in front of the press grandstand...
...physics major, Halem is currently researching "nuclear acoustic resonance" with Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics. "We should be the first in the world to find the resonance we're looking for," Halem said...
...much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...