Word: pound
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...Green. He nettled the college president with cheeky requests for fencing lessons, and he audaciously organized a camping trip through knee-deep snow in the middle of winter. During a mysterious two-and-a half-month disappearance, Ledyard somehow managed to spend his £60-pound legacy, which had been earmarked for tuition. Ledyard fled the college by taking a homemade canoe down the treacherous Connecticut River...
...years and two days later, Herrmann—a 6’4, 220-pound beast with hands “like shovels,” as Harvard coach Joe Walsh once mused—toed the mound as Harvard?...
...managed to throw me out of this 350-pound, four-wheel marathon carriage,” Kumin says. As Deuter returned toward the fallen Kumin, “he swerved—and pulled the carriage across my body,” she says. She lay on the field, nearly lifeless...
...replies with an emphatic, “Well, hello! This is John Lithgow!” As anyone who has seen Lithgow on TV or Broadway can attest, his voice is a wholly unique mix of nasal delirium and eloquent control—it’s like forty pounds of voice crammed into a five-pound sack. It’s overpowering...
...terror—the party of foreign policy idealism? And since when are the Democrats—who authored the Fourteen Points, the New Freedom, the Marshall Plan, and NATO—the party of dictator-coddling realists? And most recently: the party that fails to pound Bush for dragging his feet on Darfur nearly as much as we pounded him for rushing into Iraq...