Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abilene, Ike made his first money selling homegrown vegetables (tomatoes were 5? a pound). And when he got his first job pulling ice, loading wagons and firing furnaces in the Belle Springs Creamery (working his way up to night foreman), his friends made their headquarters there, drawn to Ike by qualities they still describe as "horse sense" and "keen sense of humor." In 1910, suddenly conscious of his own aimlessness, Ike heeded a friend's advice and took an examination for Annapolis and West Point. (The Navy lost a future admiral because he was eight months...
...pressure they feel remains about the same throughout the dive. But when a man goes to the bottom in a flexible diving suit (as he must if he wants to do any work there), he is not sheltered from the pressure of the water, which increases about one pound per square inch for every two feet of descent. The air that he breathes, pumped into his helmet through a tube from the surface, must have pressure enough to keep the water out. Such pressure is not kind to frail human flesh...
Foot by foot the decompression chamber was hoisted toward the surface. Pound by pound its air pressure fell. As it neared the surface, Clucas closed the bottom door to hold the remaining pressure, and the chamber with the two men inside was taken on board the Reclaim. For an hour they breathed pure oxygen to flush residual helium and nitrogen out of their systems. Then the door was opened, and they stepped out. At once they felt the dreaded pains of the bends, Wookey in his shoulders, Clucas in his legs and chest. They ran into a larger decompression chamber...
...friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively (sometimes a whole pound of cheese at breakfast). "I hated school, I hated everybody. I got fatter and fatter." But when she was eight, she took up music. She saved money to buy opera librettos, and sang at school. Her mother drove her on, arranged for voice lessons. Maria began to win radio amateur contests...
...tablespoons of liquid Geritol . . . contains twice the iron in a pound of calf's liver. Don't let TIRED BLOOD drag you down...