Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...queues were longer than usual last week as people tried to buy scarce delicacies for the year-end holidays. In every city, town and hamlet, citizens stood in line in hopes of getting a carp for the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. When available, the fish cost $1.22 a pound. In downtown Warsaw, as a Dickensian gloom settled over the capital one evening, more than 70 people queued up before a seedy, barren-looking candy store in hopes of buying chocolates for their children. The shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity...
...Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...gainer was London, which in six months moved from being 35% more expensive than New York to 53%, largely because a strengthening in the British pound has raised costs in terms of Yankee dollars. That has put the British capital in line with such middlingly expensive cities as Paris, Vienna and Frankfurt, which are all "only" about 55% costlier than New York...
...France had to take rushed measures to prop it up. Before it began to recover last week, the mark slumped to a low of 51.2? against the dollar, a prolonged slide from its high of 58.8? last January. It was also slipping against such onetime weaklings as the British pound, the French franc and even the Italian lira...
...seem to emanate from hell's zoo. The camera muscles into the action, peering from above, from below, from the combatant's point of view, panning 360° as a doomed fighter spins toward the canvas. Smoke, sweat, flesh and blood become Jackson Pollock abstractions as they pound home the essential blood lust of those sweet sciences, prizefighting and moviemaking...