Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russ billed them as the "Aquatots," and was as proud as the owner of a top dog act. Bubba, he boasted, could hold his breath four minutes. The lad trotted 15 minutes on a treadmill, set to duplicate an 8½% grade, to prove that his oxygen intake per pound of weight was more than that of any recorded human other than Runner Gil Dodds. Kathy caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped at a traffic light...
High hopes and low time trials were not enough to give three Crimson 150-pound shells wins in Saturday's 150-pound E.A.R.C. Championships on Lake Carnegie at Princeton...
...Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes of Wrath, The Little Foxes, Death of a Salesman, or even the destructive barren poetry of Ezra Pound...
Changed and charged, the varsity 150 pound crew races at Princeton tomorrow afternoon against eight eastern 150 pound crews for the 160 pound E.A.R.C. Championships...
...secrets to the enemy than a flock of spies. A typical dispatch from Illinois in the Chicago Tribune in 1861: "Our forces at Bird's Point now consist of the following regiments . . . [the] Eleventh Illinois . . . Twelfth Illinois . . . Eighteenth Illinois . . . also 17 pieces of artillery, consisting of six 24-pound siege guns, three 24-pound howitzers, two 12-pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote what amounted to an invitation for a Confederate attack: he described a concentration of 15,000 troops, "waiting for the remainder...